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Down to Earth. In Manhattan, a hard-pressed butcher set out a sign : "What Have I Got? I Got Cow's Feet...
...result, he said, packers are now squeezed so tightly between high ceilings for meat on the hoof and comparatively low ceilings for meat on the butcher's block that they are losing money on every pound of pork and beef. Thus, with the greatest cattle herds roaming the ranges in U.S. history, there is no incentive for packers to slaughter them. Sadly, Thomas E. Wilson, board chairman of Wilson & Co., one of the Big Four in meatpacking, agreed. Unless something is done at once, he predicted, the Federal Government will have to take over the packing industry...
...justification, blamed it on the minuscule (300) and well-guarded Japanese colony. The police put 20 Germans under preventive arrest. Chipping in their two cents' worth, the Argentines-who are far more worried about Communists than Germans and Japs-contributed a complicated suspicion: before leaving port, the assistant butcher of the Mapocho had been told by his boss that the ship was doomed to destruction; since the boss was known to be a Communist, it was no doubt a dark Red plot...
...Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress to a butcher shop, to the Army in World War I, to ownership of a prosperous market...