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...When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...
...event of the week-end was the Navy Relief Dance on Saturday, which turned out much better than anyone had anticipated. Even the weather co-operated, while the hall's decorations evoked the praise of visiting WAVES and other feminine guests, and the faculty was looking very chipper in whites...
Franklin Roosevelt had a chipper, assured look. Speaking in short, clipped sentences, curt as a communique, the U.S. Commander in Chief* informed the press (two and a half hours after reporters heard the news by radio) that Pantelleria had fallen. Then he turned to his typed, pink-paper notes, suddenly abandoned war talk for a suave, new role: Chief of United Nations Propaganda...
This week newly crowned Bob Young was feeling too chipper to fret over problems. In light blue silk lounging pajamas, he was relaxing in his Waldorf Towers apartment. Said he of his three new railroad presidents: "They have my wholehearted endorsement." Said he of himself: "I guess I'm sitting...
...hospital is tall, boyish Edward Archie Mclntosh, who cleaned out a Jap machine-gun nest after his own scouting party had been wiped out and he himself had been horribly wounded in the right leg. Although he is cheerful and chipper, his friends reported that his main worry now is whether "my girl will like a fellow with only...