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Announcements in London last week revealed the steady creep and clutch of the Allies' octopus-like attack on Germany's economic life. Most important new tentacle of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, sparkplugged by lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal...
...declares that instead of the proverbial truth being at the bottom of the well it has been replaced by "cuttlefish that are fouling it with their inky poison of lies and hate." "Harvard," he hints, "has been specializing in this type of fish" (the communist octopus...
...play is rich in more than one kind of name-calling. Before the wheelchair genuflect the world's great. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends penguins, "William Beebe" an octopus. "Harpo Marx" arrives for a cyclonic visit. "Noel Coward" whizzes by, stopping long enough to play a "new song" of his, a howling burlesque all about...
...bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first...
Last week all Wisconsin chuckled as university students retaliated in their fashion. The Wisconsin Octopus, campus funnypaper, published Poor Julius' Almanack for i$3Q-"Being Proverbs and Preachments, Suitable for Committing to Memory - These Most Faithfully Set Down from the Publick Utterances of Your Friend and Ours, the Reticent Mr. Heil." Excerpts...