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...many a newspaper shop the only things kept constantly under lock & key are the make-up man's mats of future comics, usually received from syndicates two weeks ahead of publication. What will happen in the next installment of a comic strip is one of newspaperdom's most carefully guarded trade secrets...
...Dutch. In London, an official of the exiled Netherlands Government admitted thoughts of getting closer to the British. He was not ready to say that the realistic Dutch would go lock, stock and colonies into the Commonwealth; he did believe that his country would not again try to go it alone...
Errol Flynn, informed of an imminent war-bond auction in Portland, Ore., sent a lock of his hair...
...first issue of TIME arrived a few days ago. . . . In Sicily, Africa or any other faraway spot . . . it is necessary to put a lock and chain on every incoming issue if one wishes to read it before its pages are mutilated...
...vaudeville is the key to Hope, even though he has recently had the lock changed. He is first & foremost a gag man, with a gag man's brash ability to keep moving, ad-lib, hit back; above all, with a gag man's sense of timing. Says Hope: "I was born with timing and coordination." Artistically he was born with little else-no special trick of speech, gift of pantomime, sense of character. Quite inartistically, indeed, he was born with a kind of strenuous averageness-which paradoxically managed to set him apart...