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...when copies of his latest book of cartoons- reached the U. S. from London. A collection of 146 drawings chosen from his contributions to the London Evening Standard, the book contained an entire new gallery of subjects for Low's caricatures. But it was principally notable for its merciless caricatures of tall, lean, sloping Neville Chamberlain...
...Kruif- Ear court, Brace ($3). Front-line description of the latest developments in the war against maternal mortality, tuberculosis, syphilis, infantile paralysis. Strategist as well as war correspondent. Author de Kruif fears the battle will be lost (fine armaments, men and sulfanilamide notwithstanding) without a unified command, universal draft, merciless war on the enemy within-poverty and commercialism...
...private life Lady Peel, Canadian-born widow of a British peer, Actress Lillie is, at 40, the brittle darling of the English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons...
Keynoting, Premier Dr. Negrin promised to issue food cards to everyone in Leftist Spain to ensure equal nourishment for all; he thanked the Soviet Union and Mexico for their aid; flayed Hitler and Mussolini; promised to be "merciless with profiteers"; advocated "banking controlled by the Government" and climaxed: "the war may last six months, or a year or two, but however long it lasts our economic strength will not be exhausted...
...effective Congressional opposition, President Roosevelt informed Congress: "It is with the deepest regret that I report to you that armaments increase today at an unprecedented and alarming rate. It is an ominous fact that at least one-fourth of the world's population is involved in merciless, devastating conflict. . . . Tension throughout the world is high." For support of his program he appealed to almost all apathetic or opposition groups except pacifists...