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Adolf Hitler snared the votes of Germany's enormous petty shopkeeper class by promising in famed Plank No. 16 of the Nazi Party Platform: ''Immediate communalization of the large department stores and their rental at low cost to small merchants...
Last week the Fatherland was still waiting for Leader Hitler to carve up Wertheim's in Berlin and Germany's other great department stores into cubicles and booths, each tended by a happy shopkeeper. Failure to carry out Plank No. 16 is the more dangerous to Chancellor Hitler's prestige because the Nazi Party claims to be unique in that its entire Platform is "unalterable." Moreover, since most German department stores are owned by Jews, enthusiastic Jew-baiting Nazi Storm Troopers have been asking louder and louder of late, "Why don't we throw the swine...
...opposing Naziism and Socialism, but they fear a permanent Fascist dictatorship for a special reason. The Heimwehr is an aristocratic institution, backed by Austria's great landowners. Should Austria's incessant crises ever end the Agrarian League would make the rights of peasant landowners its chief plank...
...gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story...
...before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts down inclines, steers around corners. Skating is not Johnny's sole athletic accomplishment. At seven and one-half months he began to practice swimming. Now he can dive and swim under water. Other abilities: climbing up a steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer from the instant he was born, when she began taking a long series of moving pictures of his every activity, has been Dr. Myrtle B. McGraw, the pretty, energetic assistant director of Babies Hospital's Normal Child Development Clinic, affiliated...