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...Army's Remount Service consisted of one officer, one clerk. All through War I (which employed 4.624,220 horses and mules), the A. E. F. suffered from a shortage of animals, had to wangle thousands from the U. S.'s Allies. Today the Remount Service consists of 131 officers and 342 men. Last week Remount was able to report that the biggest part of its first defense emergency job had been completed: it had bought 20,000 up-to-specification animals. It will have them all trained and ready for service by June, in the meantime must...
...with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around an attempt to exploit the exploiters by winning from the runners of a dishonest poker game enough to keep an embezzling clerk from committing suicide. Though he let things slow down a bit too much in spots. Director Ben Hecht has here found the ideal substitute for standard boy meets girl second feature-a simple drama with simple characters, skillfully cast and superbly photographed...
When Vichy finally granted a second visa, there was no gasoline for the drive from St. Gérand-le-Puy to Vichy. Defying police regulations, Giorgio Joyce bicycled to Vichy, begged every embassy and consulate for gasoline. Finally a bank clerk gave his last gallon of gas, which was enough to take the Joyces to the train...
...Washington, the error was traced to 1) a Burroughs machine operator, 2) a substitute clerk who saw the error, thought it was so big it must be right. Said the Disbursement Division: "It was so fantastic it slipped through...
Oldest shuffler was 82-year-old Edward Ranney, retired postal clerk from Kenmore, N. Y. Youngest was 17-year-old Dick Townsend of Grand Ledge, Mich. But the player who attracted the largest crowd was Open Champion Dwight K. Hubbard, 51, of Janesville, Wis. Champion Hubbard, onetime football coach, has been shuffling for ten years, has won the national championship six times. He already has more medals and ribbons than he can shake a shuffle-stick at. At week's end, it looked as if he might win another-if it would ever stop raining in Florida...