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...SALVADOR Novo...
...hired a real live artist, jittery Catalonian Surrealist Salvador Dali, to do his stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...From San Salvador, the Mary Otis will follow Columbus' route to Cuba, and try to settle a dispute as to where he landed there. Puerto Gibera is a "good guess," the professor said, but at least two other Cuban towns also claim the honor and have erected monuments to celebrate the event...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...