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...Pre-War Economy...
...Plot. Hemingway and his traveling companion, Anthony Jenkinson, found in a "snoop cruise" through the Caribbean that a German ship supposedly fishing for shark in pre-war days had charted scores of spots where subs could be refueled "as easily as Mrs. Jones takes in groceries." They named operators of bulging oil depots at strange places. They told of pro-Franco Central Americans openly working for a German victory; of Germans, including one ex-army officer, busily preparing for Nazi submarine activities. Even in 1940 small fortunes were being made by schooner masters on Nazi payrolls...
...pre-war days the concentrator in Far Eastern languages was something of a freak. It is not surprising, therefore, that in his graduate days Edwin Reischauer should have found himself at the head of a one-man class in Chinese. It is still less surprising, that, with the present demand for men versed in the outlandish tongues of the Orient, the freak of yesterday should suddenly be transformed into the expert of almost unique utility today. He who once imbibed the cup of knowledge in solitary splendor now dispenses its to some sixty would-be Intelligence men, interpreters...
Celebrities & Furs. One of the few post-midnight programs to find favor with both workers and sponsors is Moonlight Saving Time (WOR, New York, 2 to 5:30 a.m., daily), a pre-war innovation that celebrated its first birthday last week. Moonlight is slanted at night workers, with news twice an hour, transcriptions of important fight broadcasts, This Is Our Enemy and similar shows...
...Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...