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...sharks had been deeply offended. A boat had towed two cloth bags full of the Navy's new shark repellent all around the net. The concoction's smell was so revolting to the sharks that they lost interest in the mackerel...
...E.S.T.) he appeared in was fashioned of homespun, with an expensive tailor's touch. The character he plays is sure fire for cornfed philosophizing: a small-town judge who doubles in hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family (Sun. 3:30-4 p.m., E.S.T.), was more than coincidental. Both of them are written and directed by paunchy, bald Carlton Errol Morse, 44, one of radio's masters of the so-human touch...
...that was nearly 20 years ago. Bad years had come-years of poor crops, high taxes, heavy cares about his own growing household. As youth and man Liu knew only the cloth sandals of his Szechwan neighbors...
...small news to a public used to reading about 1,000-plane flights through ack-ack and enemy fighters. The Globester was a symbol of the postwar scrabble for news. The war's communiqués had given the press news readymade; now editors had to cut the cloth to fit, for themselves...
They had plenty of reasons for their opinions. Some of them: 1) production of worsted cloth and the tailoring of garments is crippled by a lack of labor (New England woolen mills need at least 15,000 more workers); 2) worsteds, unfrozen in August, will not reach the civilian consumer until early spring 1946; 3) textile mill machinery is wearing out, needs replacing...