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Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
...which has compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising...
...draws Little Orphan Annie is balding, cigar-smoking Harold Lincoln Gray. Despite the fact that the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune has been hitting relentlessly at gas-ration "muddling," bureaucracy and Government interference with private enterprise, Artist Gray has been-repeatedly warned by the Tribune-News Syndicate to keep controversial issues out of his strips. He ignored the orders because 1) he is publicity-wise, knows the value of having his strip talked about; 2) he is an all-out, old-line conservative Republican himself; 3) he finds it difficult to keep Annie "in tune with the times" and simultaneously...
...wrapped up in giving hoarse directions and calling attention to the memo on the bulletin board which bore the requested information was this writer, that he forget to reward the questioner in question. Thus, if the aforementioned individual will present himself to the Navy office, a big black cigar, certified to be a true copy, will be presented...
This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...