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...Cartoonist Percy Crosby (Skippy) went U. S. patent No. 2,197,174 for a helmet designed to prevent brain concussions. Shaped like a Tyrolean yodeler's hat, its crown rests on powerful springs which are attached to the brim. How it works: bullet comes, crown gives, bullet is deflected, crown snaps back, war goes...
When it was announced, after all this fuss & feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...
Underneath was a drawing of a skull wearing a French trench helmet...
...very sorry I haven't written to you sooner. You must think it very ungracious of me, but we've had a lot of war about for the time of year, which has kept us busy. . . . I leapt into my country's breach wearing a tin helmet, dungarees and a lace brassiere...
...British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...