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Lake County, Ill. includes such swank Chicago suburbs as Highland Park, Lake Forest, Deerfield, Barrington. Its biggest city (pop. 33,499) is Waukegan, chiefly famed as Jack Benny's home town...
...Jonah Barrington, whimsical, curly-laired young radio columnist of the London Daily Express, gave him the name early in the war. Barrington's resourceful notion was that, by daily and well-aimed ridicule, this No. 1 Nazi radio propagandist might be turned into: 1) high comedy, 2) good copy for the Express...
...Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...
...that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers of tea, coffee and groceries, and benevolently paternalistic employer...
...Barrington Town Warming was an idea of Jewel Tea's Vice President Clarence W. Kaylor who, like many of his fellow executives, was worried about "isms" threatening the U. S. Mr. Kaylor lined up all of Barrington's civic bodies behind the plan, including the principal churches (Methodist, Catholic, Christian Science). Although a collection was to be taken to finance the Town Warming, no one expected it to amount to much: Jewel Tea Co. would make up the deficit. The plan itself was simply to get as many Barringtonites as possible to go to a series of lectures...