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...strictly nonpartisan affair, just a home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
...women's singles and doubles (with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Attlee watching in the stands) were all-American finals too. Singles winner: San Francisco's Margaret Osborne, over Miami's Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4. In the doubles, Doris Hart and Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd beat the defending champions, Miss Osborne and Louise Brough...
...that sugar is so plentiful it might be decontrolled before Oct. 31? This week the Senate began to consider a bill to end sugar rationing immediately. But the Department of Agriculture has not committed itself on the bill. Its chief concern is to get housewives to buy sugar for canning now so that sugar shipments will not tie up freight cars needed to move the bumper wheat crop later...
...hosts found her almost suspiciously normal, a slender, friendly woman of 40 who seemed as unaffected as her correspondence. Green-eyed Mollie was no brittle careerist but a woman who, besides working for the New Yorker, was her' own housekeeper, did her own canning...
...about Alaska (Harold Ickes was there on his honeymoon, never went back). Alaska's 586,400 square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...