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Hideout. In Detroit, the FBI quickly found Navy Deserter George Kovick, who was blowing plastic bubbles in a five-&-dime store window...
Hepcat Hurdle. On the West Coast, some jukebox operators upped their price to 10? a record. In San Francisco, Jukebox King Jack Ehrlich reported some resistance to dime-a-record, three-for-a-quarter players. But in San Jose the new dime jukeboxes paid for their coin-box alterations in a week, showed a 50% increase in gross take...
...York Sun representative George Trevor also had good words for Kenary--"key man in 1947's attack"--but added "Gifted backs are a dime a dozen at Cambridge, but where is the line to shield those flashy ballcarriers...
...last week, not only Kresge's but Woolworth's and scores of other dime and department stores were selling thousands of 29? and 49? packets, consisting of a pipe and a collapsible tube filled with a plastic called "Bub-O-Loon." In thousands of homes, offices and nightclubs, Americans were huffing & puffing into their hollow sticks...
...Congressmen cross-examined Food Minister John Strachey and were a little annoyed by his air of supercilious serenity. They were more impressed by Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade. Cripps said that Britain was bracing itself to get along without another U.S. dime, if necessary...