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Fastest growing business in sleepy, elm-shaded Flemington, N.J. (pop. 2,700) is that of holding annual stockholders' meetings. Last week business was brisk. In one day, stockholders of the New York Air Brake Co., American Crystal Sugar Co. and McHutchinson & Co. (garden bulbs) plumped down in chairs in the law office of sedate, greying George Knowles Large, droned through the meetings, caught the first train back to New York, virtuously felt the 50-mile trip well worth the thousands of dollars in taxes they had thus saved their companies...
...next day we went east, riding in an Army truck accompanied by Father Megan. Trees on the road had been peeled of their bark. Peasants dry and powder the elm bark and then cook it. They also eat leaves, straw roots, cottonseed and water reed...
...latest collection of stories, essays, profiles, Humorist James Thurber gives us another glimpse into the weird Thurberian world- that closed circle within which the male animal plods foolishly round & round, hopefully, "cutting down elm trees to put up institutions for people driven insane by the cutting down of elm trees." Thurber's colored maid Delia has figured out the mind of this foiled, circuitous wanderer. Thurber, she explains, "used to work in an office like anybody else, but he had to be sent to an institution; he got well enough to come home from the institution...
...start with, anyone who calls the elm-shaded area where the University lives and moves and has its being a "campus" is likely to be shunned by the knowing ones from that point forward. Because it was once a cow pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of "Rheinhardt" has echoed for years...
...WAACs training on the elm-shaded Fort Des Moines parade ground were dead serious. In the classroom they took notes on everything but the instructor's "Good Morning." They saluted so often, so insistently that visiting regular Army officers had to use liniment on the arms that returned those salutes...