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Drummers' Stock. In Atlanta, the Cordelia Hosiery Shop displayed 300 pairs of sheer black nylons as customer bait, within 48 hours sold them all to Salvation Army lassies in town for a convention...
...reading it first in TIME, I took it to be a bit of South-baiting, a habit I think TIME sometimes has, and which makes my bristles rise. So, I rose for the bait, and took it, hook, line, sinker...
Ambitious Weekly. The other peace-seeking periodical has given the Manhattan eyrie of the New Republic the expectant aura of a hospital delivery room-even though the birth is still months away. But the prospect is more exciting to Editor Michael Whitney Straight (rhymes with bait) than the current affairs of the New Republic, his family's journal of opinion...
...Peace Bait & War Threat. Whispered predictions of what will happen if the SED loses include: further dismantling and removal of German industries to Russia, reduced food rations, even worse economic conditions and heavier reparations, and still stricter control by the Soviet occupation authorities. The crassest of whispered slogans is: "If you want peace, vote for the SED. If you want war vote...
C.S.T. to hear experts on bait and fly-casting, listened'nightly at 10 p.m. to the latest reports on lucky anglers who had hooked an unlucky tagged fish and a consequent prize...