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...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
...Britain's Lord Privy Seal and specialist in postwar aviation, empire-loving Lord Beaverbrook now energetically pretends that he controls his world's-biggest London Daily Express (circ. more than 3,000,000) by telepathy only. But most Britons saw the Beaver's lusty individualism in a characteristically belligerent front-page editorial which appeared last week, headed "A Policy for the People," subtitled "The Policy of the Daily Express" The policy...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
...Helmericks soon found that the surly Yukon was no highway of ro mance. It carried "the silt of half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...