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...unconscious fear & hatred of his domineering father, a Jewish bank president, into a puerile fear & hatred of Adolf Hitler. Dr. John Levy of Manhattan gave the boy toy soldiers, boats and wooden figures and told him to imagine himself the Protector of the Jews. The boy organized a mimic expedition which captured and executed "Adolf Hitler." That made the boy believe himself bold & powerful, purged him of his fear & hatred of his father...
Married. Tom Campbell Black, co-winner of the MacRobertson Trophy, England-to-Australia air race last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29); and Florence Desmond. British actress, mimic ("The Hollywood Party"); in London...
Being "de Lawd" is no mere mimic part to Richard Harrison; it is a full-time job, onstage and off. For the members of the cast, he is just short of an actual deity. He arbitrates their squabbles and since they are mostly professional actors from Harlem, they periodically have to be lent money. Actor Harrison is known as "Two Dollar" Harrison to his colleagues because he is always available for a loan to that extent...
...hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost continuous strategic and tactical exercises. All the way down the Mexican coast it played at war games. A mimic attack had struck at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Then, to everyone's surprise, Admiral Sellers had suddenly decided on a forced fleet march across Panama, putting his 111 vessels through the canal in the record time of 48 hr. (TIME, May 7). Climax to the maneuvers...
...Fleet had just ended its two-year vigil in the Pacific by a cruise down the West Coast and a mimic attack on Panama Bay. Thousands of officers and men were on shore leave, pending a leisurely fortnight's "fleet march" through the Canal, when Admiral David Foote Sellers, Fleet Commander, suddenly decided: "The presence of the Fleet at the Canal . . . presents an excellent opportunity to execute a movement involving rapid transit such as might be necessary in case of emergency...