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Franklin Roosevelt had his "Cuff Links Club," made up of secretaries and newsmen who had been with him on his unsuccessful vice-presidential campaign in 1920. Last week Harry Truman officially organized his "Hardrock Club." Its membership: White House aides and newsmen who had accompanied him on his successful vice-presidential campaign tour last year and on the trip to Potsdam. The name refers to the time Harry Truman and the newsmen went down a Montana copper mine last year. The club pin: a golden miner's pick...
Archie (Ed Gardner), the Duffy bar tender, is feeding and boozing 14 unemployed exservicemen in the back room, strictly on his frayed cuff. Their former employer, O'Malley (Victor Moore), is clumsily trying to connive the shellac and the funds to reopen his record factory...
...Forces band blared the Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner (an honor re served for heads of states, members of reigning royal families, and diplomats of ambassadorial rank, according to strict protocol). General de Gaulle's body clicked into ramrod attention, two stars gleaming just above the cuff-line of his saluting...
...most widely read home-grown philosopher. This week he started his 21st year on the State Journal of Madison with: "Here is a chance for the Journal to throw a little party for me. This is just a little reminder that is all everything is on the cuff" (Roundy is always drumming up free meals and drinks...
...military, though it takes only 10% of total shoe production, will now take 30% of the sole-leather supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...