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...main jobs of the Federal Trade Commission are to clamp down on misleading advertising and, dig up cases of monopoly. Because it is much easier to spot a fake ad than to dig up evidence for a full-fledged antitrust suit, FTC has felt moved to skimp on its more important trustbusting job; it has recently used its august powers on such piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories...
American women, observes Vogue severely, are too tense and that is bad-"nervous people acquire a tendency to stare and to clamp their jaws into an ugly, tight line." Vogue could fix that...
Fishing & Forgetting. Since spring training began, five weeks ago, home for the Williamses has been a $350-a-month furnished apartment near the Red Sox camp at Sarasota. Ted has great admiration for clamp-jawed Manager McCarthy, but under McCarthy, spring means hard work, and work makes Williams wistful. He sorely misses fishing. "Fishing is how I forget my troubles. I go out alone, or with one other guy. We don't talk much. Boy, I get really relaxed...
Confessed Manager Joe McCarthy, breaking his clamp-jawed silence: "My nerves are just about shot. I'll have to do something about it or go nuts." He nearly did one day last week when his Red Sox, trailing the Yankees 3-2 in the ninth, got a hit with the bases loaded and failed to score a run. Base-runner John Pesky began a dash for the plate, decided to go back and tag-up at third in case the ball was caught, fell down, got thrown out at the plate. Next day, by way of saving McCarthy...
...hour, refused to arbitrate. Harry Bridges' noisy West Coast mouthpieces,* sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push organized labor off the islands. Big business at least seemed determined to clamp down on the kind of troublemaking unionism that Harry Bridges and his union stand for. Arbitration on the docks, they argue, would lead to arbitration in Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries, where the I.L.W.U. has 30,000 members. What is more, they said, Harry Bridges' union had frequently abused arbitration...