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Ramshackle Inn (by George Batson; produced by Robert Reud) brought Zasu Pitts, Hollywood's funny, fluttery fool, to Broadway on a sleeveless errand. A sort of shotgun marriage between farce and melodrama, Ramshackle Inn is lousy with murders, lacking in thrills, not very long on laughs. As a befuddled innkeeper who winds up more than a match for the villains, Actress Pitts is amusing enough, but by no means a match for the bad play...
...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
...Swedish liner Gripsholm stood ready for another errand of mercy. Into her hold went medicine, clothing, cigarets, food packed by Red Cross volunteers who worked day & night shifts. Aboard went the pathetic little gifts, prepared with great hope and sorrow, by the families of the American men & women who are spending the war in Japanese prison camps...
Repeater. Hague's choice for the nomination was his perennial errand boy, three-time Governor A. (for Arthur) Harry Moore, a Hague henchman since 1913. As Hague's U.S. Senator in 1935, Harry Moore had voted against Social Security, giving his reason in the deathless phrase: "It will take the romance out of old age." Labor, anxious to team up with Frank Hague to help along the Term IV campaign next year, nevertheless balked at backing old A. Harry...
Clerical assistants constitute a final division in the classifications of librarians. This is the largest department in the library, with 77 people doing the miscellaneous jobs covered by this field. Their duties range from errand boy to work at the charging desk. Also included in this department are office assistants and clerks...