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Once in a great while this clip-and-paste system slips a cog. For example, there was the week a Medicine story on dipsomaniacs got mixed up with a Science story on fish. Our sailors overseas must have gotten quite a kick out of reading about drunken smelts. ("The mysterious malady that all but wiped out the Great Lakes smelts is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons. But a few hardy ones survive...
...mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie" at his old home). Father Pyle keeps a scrapbook of the daily columns from the Danville, Ill. Commercial-News; Aunt Mary clips hers from the Indianapolis Times...
...long as military orders for woolens continue to flood the mills, the wool growers are safe. For military orders specify domestic wool. The Commodity Credit Corporation purchased the 1943 domestic clip at ceiling prices, and is unwilling to sell its wool for less. As a result the growers have already lost the civilian market. Textile manufacturers, forced to keep their prices in line with OPA ceilings on civilian goods, cannot afford to pay $1.18 a lb. for home-grown wool, 65% higher than the prewar price. Instead they are buying imported wool, which despite a tariff of 34? a pound...
...Herald's drastic remedy: to eliminate all display advertising and to cut classified ad space in half. At least until year's end the Herald, usually 20 to 30 pages daily and 60 Sundays, will continue at a 12-page daily, 30-page Sunday clip...
Victorious on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 1), Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away...