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Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles -nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth...
...born in Cleveland, Ohio. His 700-page Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand is his second try at unmasking Shakespeare, and the result of 20 years' sniffing among Shakespearean data. Stern, relentless Alden Brooks takes a poor view of the accused. He depicts Shakespeare as a butcher's son in Stratford, "a country youth who has to leave school early in order to assist his father in the killing of cattle . . . one who sows his wild oats so liberally that he must, first, marry against his will a woman eight years his senior, and, secondly...
...Vallejo, near San Francisco, the meat supply was a paltry 10% of normal; in Richmond, Calif, (shipyards) the population is up 40%, the meat supply down 70%. One butcher's solution: "I gotta make a living and I gotta keep my customers satisfied. Every morning I make the rounds of four black-market outfits. In one I say to the guy 'I'll bet you $25 you can't get me a side of beef.' I lay the cash on the table and I always lose the bet. What the hell would...
...biggest and most complex in the U.S. Sugar is effectively controlled through 17 refineries; gasoline is carefully checked through 500 refineries. But meat grows on millions of U.S. farms and ranches, is slaughtered in tens of thousands of big and little abattoirs, is sold in 223,000 butcher shops. In this economic labyrinth the meatlegger finds easy pickings. Because he sells at prices 10 to 200% above OPA-fixed levels he easily outbids legitimate packers in dealing with stock raisers with itching palms; because he has choice cuts to sell he easily outtrades honest butchers...
...problem of preventing private interests from secretly polluting the wells of public information was solved long ago, in the case of the press, by simply requiring every publication to publish a list of its owners once a year but allowing anybody, be he butcher, baker or candlestick maker, to own a paper. There is one important difference between the press and radio: any number of different papers can be published, but the number of radio stations is limited by the wave lengths available-a fact which may entitle the Government to have a say in who owns those that...