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Disney's setting of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a wolf whose gullet looks like something out of Dante; a cat which, in a moment of terror, has an all-claws resemblance to a brier bush; and a cute little feeble-minded duck named Sonia...
...Leech" White is reputed to have a store laid by for just such emergencies as these. See him if you're burning old slat reports in the brier like Bob Shepherd and others. Lenn White, that soft spoken friend of Professor Cunningham, gave us the word on the Sixth War Loan drive. After the little quiz yesterday, (answer rumored to be in the six hundreds), you'll know how to make the proper checkage. Buy bonds and make a down payment on one of Lt. Towne's special Hari Kari Kits...
...Because local steel ingot capacity is insufficient, Youngstown Sheet & Tube is offering to dismantle its Brier Hill (Ohio) plate mill, ship its equipment to any interested bidder. Reported bidders: American Rolling Mill, perhaps for its new Texas operations; Henry J. Kaiser, for his new California plant...
Franklin Roosevelt, who occasionally talks through his hat but more often pulls rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...
Inside OCD's brier patch Fiorello LaGuardia was bounding around like a snarled-up bandersnatch, uttering encouraging yells, while the briers made rips in his reputation. Butch himself admitted that he might be attempting too much, trying to run New York City and OCD all at once. A lot of people were sure of it -the House of Representatives, for one lot. Flatly rejecting the Senate's liberal plan to give OCD unlimited funds, the House voted to appropriate $100,000,000 but to put the Army in charge of spending it. For Butch, not a nickel...