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...everyone pulling together holds true in war. Most of the big generals and admirals are sports minded, MacArthur, Halsey and the others." Commenting on short-wave broadcasts of important athletic events. Don said, "I can't remember ever hearing one. The only way men on board ship get spirts dope is in the morning when the wireless operation pick up news and type it out. Of course you might have a few radios on some ships...
...step back and take an over-all view, then review the market again. This is the straight dope...
...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...
...those "New York stories." But would the President like to talk to Mr. Willkie? That, he said, is a personal matter, an entirely personal matter. But he did plan to see Winston Churchill again. And soon. He smiled and spelled out soon. A reporter asked him about the biggest dope-story of the week: that he favored compulsory peacetime conscription. The President leaned back, talked thoughtfully about American youth (see col. 3). Jovially he suggested that the reporters near his desk could use some exercise themselves. He was chuckling as the conference ended...
...buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. (Wall Street could trace neither rumor to fact...