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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talker. In Marianna, Fla., Mamie Ruth Odum, en route by bus to marry an Air Corps lieutenant in Tampa, met a private who told her: "Give me until tomorrow noon and I'll talk you into marrying me instead...
Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...last week of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler's Military Affairs subcommittee, flying hellbent north on a rush-rush, hush-hush mission to learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren...
...Nineteen showgirls en route to Miami, Fla. from Manhattan by train, donned scanty bathing suits, covered themselves and the suits with war stamps. In nine minutes flat, passengers had peeled off and paid for all the stamps (see cut). Value: $500. In Los Angeles a model named Judith Gibson appeared on the I. Magnin department store steps in a strapless suit made of stamps, cheerfully sold bonds to four men, all fully clothed...
...pyramided by the sluggish mental attitude of U.S. industry, "too long used to cheap materials and expensive labor, still addicted to the extravagance that made Ford use alloy steel radiator grilles designed to outlast the rest of his V-8 bodies by several lifetimes." Sample horrors en his list...