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...borrowing of John T. McCutcheon's cartoon was significant. Actually Cousin Joe had little need for borrowed isolationist cartooning. The Daily News's own Pulitzer Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make the most of bitterly...
Last week a raw, chilling rain followed eddying snow on the flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers...
...tank factory site was firm and dry when workmen began to clear it on Sept. 11. By early December it was a marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
Next year, in an effort to raise the total take, the Council will set up a skeleton organization in each House and in the Yard, and with the advice of the Community Fund and the active help of members of Brooks House will conduct a vigorous campaign of personal solicitation. The drive will probably take place in the second or third week in October...
They were mostly three-or four-story structures-musty headquarters for centuries of proud merchant traders, insurance brokers and craftsmen who preferred tradition to comfort. Here & there stood the steel skeleton of a modern building, its girders fantastically warped and bulged by heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion...