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Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
...memorial is a Gothic community center built by Mrs. Jones in 1925. It once housed an Esperanto school, still contains an art gallery and 8,000 books. Lithopolitans go there for movies and organ concerts. Last week the memorial had also become an educational cornucopia...
...would not be an easy job. Secretary Krug took "national resources" to mean manpower, technology and factories, as well as land, forests and minerals. Rich and bountiful as it is, the U.S. cornucopia is not limitless. Though annual exports on the projected scale of the Marshall Plan would amount to only 2% of the national capacity, they would be piled onto a taut, high-employment economy that was already near busting at the seams...
...cornucopia-shaped Argentina, the one great food-happy nation on the continent, Herbert Hoover's spirits got a lift. At week's end newly inaugurated President Juan D. Perón received him cordially, promised help. His reported measure of cooperation: 150,000 tons of wheat...
Life in the Navy had not changed 48-year-old Bill McGovern much, except to restock his cornucopia of anecdotes. Starchy Admiral King got indigestion every time Commander McGovern entered the room, his Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says...