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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (born Destouches), best-selling intelligentsiac shocker of the '30s (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan), anti-Semitic literary darling of Vichy France, was nabbed in Copenhagen. The Danes planned to let the French help him with his next chapter...
When it came to the atom bomb, the report dropped its own shocker on the plane-building East and West Coasts. Said the report: six atomic bombs dropped in the Los Angeles area could completely wipe out the giant Southern California plane industry. What must be done, said the report, is to disperse the aircraft industry. This could best be accomplished by letting coast planemakers trade some of their present plants for Government-owned facilities inland. The moving costs should be paid by the Government...
...German Talks Back is a shocker...
...real shocker was a supine human skeleton, varnished with gleaming gilt paint, dazzlingly berobed and tenderly laid out to impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator...
...shocker was Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. Its fat profit of $4,689,000 in 1943 shrank to a picayune...