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Negro Staff Sergeant Gilbert Cartiero's winning picture (titled 0600 Hours) showed a pfc. putting on his pants. In bed in the background sprawled a tired naked German maiden. According to one red-faced bigwig, Sergeant Cartiero's picture might "reflect badly on Red Cross activities...
...President Richard P. Ettinger, 52, were both teaching economics at New York University when they founded the company in 1913 to publish Materials of Corporation Finance, a case textbook they had prepared. Aware that Gerstenberg & Ettinger might prove too big a mouthful, they gave the firm the maiden names of their mothers...
Editor Smith picked up the phone, demanded that the New York Post syndicate tell its new man to rewrite his maiden column. The syndicate said no. Smith canceled his contract, hung up, batted out a front-page manifesto: "It would be impossible to guarantee to print every word that Mr. Ickes might see fit to write...
...eyed Betty Sanders of Brooklyn sang The Mighty Atom Bomb ("Hear the squawking friends of Hearst, they think we ought to use it first"); Lee Hays, son of an Arkansas preacher, told of his Rankin Tree ("It poisoned my potatoes, it poisoned my squash . . ."), and a pretty young union maiden named Eleanor Young did a slightly bawdy ballad about Mary Lee of the Bourgeoisie ("I've married Joe of the C.I.O."). Other topics: the Western Union strike, Churchill and Franco, housing ("I spend my days in Central Park and my nights on the I.R.T...
...story of a character invented by Ludwig Bemelmans. But its humor and gaiety paradoxically give place to sadness when Schoenberner describes his career with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress for the sin of reflecting too faithfully "the physiognomy of the reigning class, [of] too ostentatious Government...