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...Britons and Anglo-Argentines, mostly junior executives in Ernst, Berg & Cia. (advertising agency), formed, half in fun and half in earnest, the Fellowship of the Bellows. Aim: "to raise the wind" for purchasing Hurricane and other fighter planes for the R. A. F. Method: each member contributes one Argentine centavo (4?) for each Axis plane downed during the month. Thus, in October the Fellowship's 3,000 members each paid in 288 centavos or 2.88 pesos (72?) for the 288 enemy planes notched up by the R. A. F. that month. This totaled some $2,100 or just over...
...painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (see p. 16) agreed to be best man at the wedding on Oct. 4 of his nephew, Lawyer Richard B. Scandrett Jr. of Manhattan, and Mary Emma Landenberger, of Philadelphia, newspaper reporter. Legend: Lawyer Scandrett first...