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...Britain these days. Most British workers have been willing enough to heed their government's pleas, swallow their grievances and stay on the job. But there are some things a self-respecting Briton can't swallow. That was the way of it with 26-year-old Alf Cole, driver's mate on a lorry owned by Wells and Winch, the big brewers of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire...
Three weeks ago a pal bet Alf 10 shillings and two gallons of beer that he couldn't grow a beard and keep it on till Easter. Alf figured the bet was a cinch, because he had grown a beard last summer and none of his bosses had said a word. This time, however, Brewery Manager Jack Redmund (who had been Alf's officer in the territorials during the war) issued an ultimatum: "Shave it off or work inside." A brewery executive explained: "We didn't feel that the growth of the beard upheld the prestige...
...Alf took a job in the barrel room at a 5-shilling cut in wages, but he was far from happy. "Redmund smokes a pipe," he grumbled. "I don't like it, but I ain't saying anything." A reporter from the Daily Herald printed the remark and Alf got the sack...
...Alf M. London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
Boom, Boom. It was the throb of a favorite-son boom for Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in 1948 will become President Eisenhower of Columbia University. Behind the drums were Roy Roberts' potent Kansas City Star and a would-be Eisenhower campaign manager, Alf Landon, who had pointedly stayed away from Dewey doings in Kansas City. A fortnight ago Ike had again denied his political ambitions, but announced: "I haven't the effrontery to say I wouldn't be President." No one knew better than Dewey, beaten by Willkie in 1940, how much spontaneous combustion...