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...pulled open and pushed shut by hand. Its exposures lasted from two to six minutes. To get his subjects to sit still so long he propped their arms and torsos comfortably on heavy, leather-bound books, canes, chair arms and the edges of tables. Because staring eyes would spoil his pictures, he photographed most people with downcast eyes. Unable to take a picture except in broad sunlight, he constructed "interiors" out of doors with the aid of curtains and furniture...
Growled one protestant: "Imagine, a building with 35 acres of roof and they say it won't spoil the view. Hell, you could put a line of garbage pails in front of a house and it wouldn't 'spoil' the view, but by God it wouldn't be very pleasant...
...books appeared in the U.S. this week which may be copiously quoted before 1941 is out. One is a horror Baedeker to modern Poland, the Polish White Book (written in French), the other is The Spoil of Europe (Norton; $2.75), by a man with the pseudonym of Thomas Reveille. Both works make out the Nazi as the most ruthless and cunning of the human species...
...Spoil of Europe is no hammock reading. It describes the Nazi technique of politico-economic rape of occupied countries. A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy. Random samples...
...Polish Spoils. Good subtitle to the Polish White Book might be The Spoil of Poland. Excerpts...