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...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...
...their living room is commandeered for funerals and littered with pigs; they freeze and starve while the country folks go warm and well-fed; they imagine that the yokels' attractive son has eloped with their daughter. Eventually, of course, peace is established, and one family moves into the barn...
Santelmann has been a member of the band through three White House occupancies, became its conductor in 1940. During the Hoover Administration, the band played barn dances in the East Room. In the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Marines never appeared at the White House without Lord Geoffrey Amherst. In Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...
...Take it out back," said Mother. "Way out back of the barn. No, farther-farther...
Mother said: "You know how boys are. They just want to hear the bang. I hope they don't burn the barn down...