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Explained a tardy young typist when called on the carpet in one of Oslo's vast Nazi bureaus: "I cannot do without coffee." Snapped her Hitler-worshipping boss: "Henceforth, come five minutes early, repeat until opening time 'I can do without coffee. Heil Hitler.'" Chanted the typist dutifully each morning: "I can do without Hitler. Heil coffee...
...routine-dull museum director, de Young's shy, German-born Walter Heil has long been interested in self-portraiture. For this exhibition he asked picked artists to send two pictures each...
...Director Heil will hang a photograph of each subject beside his autoportrait. Says he: "The painter, when he stands ... before a mirror, is for once scot-free. . . If he does not quite like his face, he can subtly improve on it. ... Comparison with the 'objective' photographs will let us detect this easily...
...Many of Heil's contributors interpreted their invitations as a relaxed, sporting assignment, fished into their mirrors for some consummately original conceptions. Notable exhibits were...
...line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we'll save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were given thick, white blankets stamped U.S.N. Soon mess stewards were passing hot coffee to Americans and Germans alike...