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Aside from local distributors, this booming business is shared by nearly 200 manufacturers. Among the biggest are Rowe (cigarets), Du Grenier (cigarets and candy), Mills (unrelated to Bert E.) Novelty (Coca-Cola and familiar "one-arm-bandit gambling machines") and Automatic Canteen (snacks). The industry has lately attracted such companies as Bell Aircraft (coin changer) and General Electric (hotdog cooker...
Methodist Layman Mott is the grand old man of Protestant world unity, has been a leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
...head man, Wadsworth gets to his Cross Street headquarters in midafternoon, has supper sent up from the office canteen. He directs the brief 5 o'clock news conference, assigns the leaders, manages to turn out one long leader himself each week. He is careful to see that the Guardian's news is displayed with grace and readability, but has no intention of putting news on the ad-covered front page. "We think that what the hasty reader loses," he says, "the careful reader gains from a nicer inside make...
Comrades of the Cucumber. The best and the worst of the famous Russian soul seems to come out on trains. The camaraderie is overwhelming; the crudity unbelievable. At every stop someone got off to fill my canteen with vodka, which was then redistributed to all hands. We collected an accordionist, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a discharged sailor and enough other people to make movement in our compartment almost impossible...
...empty little church around the corner from Broadway got a new congregation last week: 415 prewar show people. All had come home from the wars with stage fright. To help them over it, the American Theater Wing, which ran the Stage Door Canteen, had rented the church, set up a theater school for ex-servicemen & women-professional show people only...