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...Shortages. Tops on the list of things that most shoppers cannot get are dependable toys. Cracked a Newark merchant, of the wood and cardboard substitutes for metal trains, wagons and toys: "They won't last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through...
Other papers, like the New York Daily News, have tested an "ersatz" newsprint made partially from old newspapers, either de-inked or not. There are hitches to this too: 1) most old newspapers now go into the manufacture of cardboard cartons; 2) door-to-door collection would be ineffectual and discouragingly difficult; 3) the operation is expensive...
...graduating 'Poon man takes a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
Written by MacLean Russell and Richard R. Rogan with generous and lib contributions by the cast, Rogan staged the production with typical Hollywood touches. Happy Graves did a nice job as stage manager, improvising plam trees out of cardboard and grass skirts out of shredded newspapers...
George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News...