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...home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years, he abdicated in 1945, turned the Hays Office over to Eric Johnston, went home to Indiana to practice...
...with chapters of the National Foundation supplying volunteer clerical and nursing help. No child will be vaccinated without written consent of parents or guardians. Each child selected will receive three injections, each of 1 cc. of triple vaccine in water, the first two shots a week apart, the third (booster) shot a month later. All shots will be given in the arm and should be virtually painless...
...Rats in a Tub. Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part...
...Booster Station. In Harewood, England, finding too much money in a telephone call box, Telephone Company Employee Mary Throup tracked down an elderly lady who admitted that she always put loose change into the box because "the poor telephone girls don't get much money, you know." Chip & Old Block. In Bloomingburg, N.Y., after Francis Van Winkle sold his father's farm machinery for $275 and left home without telling him, he was turned over to the police when he crawled into bed, discovered that his father had sold the house without telling...
Died. Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 70, anti-Fascist Italian-born author (Goliath, the March of Fascism; Common Cause) and longtime (1936-48) professor of Italian literature at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Fiesole, Italy. A tireless booster of the League of Nations, he became disillusioned after its failure, decided that nothing short of true world government would work. He regarded the U.N. with pity, called it "a child growing up in an iron lung" because it was not based on the abolition of political boundaries...