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...says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard maidens. Of them M. Friedland says with Gallic awe (his assistant's translation) : "America, it is wonderful. Here it is only needed to rub the young lady in order to make the fire...
...Ganzer Kerl!" Adolf Hitler, who makes it his crude habit to rub the noses of distinguished foreign guests as deeply as possible in Nazidom, characteristically staged the Munich conference at the very hub of the Nazi movement, the Führerhaus (Leader's House...
...minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers. He was allowed to finish his ride in one of four unoccupied seats. At the next stopping place he was escorted off airport property and released. Only rub was that Flyer Hagaman, in the excitement of his adventure, boarded an eastbound plane, found himself in Dayton, Ohio, 150 miles farther away from home...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...foundation, proceeded to purify one of the ten millions by turning over its income to University of Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...