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Meanwhile, London newsmen grew suspicious. There a similar photo, slightly different, ran as an exclusive picture in the Daily Sketch. Said Sketch's caption: "Taken at the height of battle [it] shows . . . five of the German planes crashing in flames. . . . Trails of smoke tell the tale." Newsmen went around to Planet's office, demanded the original print, rubbed wet fingers over it. Three of the planes, most of the smoke disappeared. There remained a dark spot which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke...
...about what the U. S. woman will wear this fall. But the fall styles were not made in Manhattan. Their keynote was struck in Paris last May-by Schiaparelli, by Lanvin, by Chanel, Molyneux, LeLong, etc.-in their regular midseason openings, sparsely attended but well covered by cable and sketch. Since then Paris has fallen. The U. S. dress business will soon need more guidance. Otherwise it will not know what to make...
ESCAPE WITH ME-An Oriental Sketch Book-Osbert Sltwell-Harrison-Hilton ($3). For the first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live...
...delegates to the Democratic Party's 28th National Convention had to judge for themselves: unexplained mysteries were the rule in Chicago. On a wall of the Convention's vast (21,000 seats) Chicago Stadium, a huge picture of a donkey was replaced by a spotlighted, grisly sketch of Franklin Roosevelt. Assiduously distributed were 500,000 campaign buttons, adorned not by a donkey but by a bright red cock-o'-the-walk and the legend: "Just Roosevelt...
Belatedly the Aircraft Production Ministry thought it was going to run short of "aluminium," called on housewives to contribute objects of rolled "aluminium" such as kitchenware, hair-curlers, shoe trees, cocktail shakers, beer mugs. A few hundred tons trickled in and the Daily Sketch cheerily headlined: "From the Frying Pan Into the Spitfire...