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...Roosevelt.) Instructors are strictly forbidden to have off-hour dates with patrons. Murray pays them from $1.60 to $2.10 an hour, allows them $25 a month extra for clothes and $3 a week for meals, gives them free milk and vitamins and earthy advice (samples: "Your clothes will smell fresher if dry-cleaned regularly"; "Sitting down only enlarges the hips...
...most important discovery: U.S. housewives will cheerfully pay more to get fresher, tastier food. When prices were up to only 10? a lb. more than train-shipped produce (OPA granted special ceilings), consumers gladly paid the difference. When the differential was greater, sales resistance developed. But the airborne foods often sold anyway. Examples: airborne grapes sold for 44? a lb. v. 27? for groundshipped. One surprising drawback: "experienced" shoppers, used to the appearance of days-old, rail-shipped products, often refused to buy fresh airborne lettuce because it looked "too green...
...first radio show was as good unseen as seen: he played all the parts in a populous, fast-talking skit whose cast of characters covered half a dozen nationalities, two sexes, assorted ages, and a corner of the animal kingdom. It was a good trick, and at least fresher than his repeat performance of the stunt that originally made him a star...
This was true even before Tom Dewey was nominated and took over the controls. State by State, the G.O.P. is under new management. The 26 Republican Governors, in the main, had cast out the old party reactionaries, had freely replaced them with younger, fresher men. In sum, the party that met at Chicago was not the party that had lost three elections to Franklin Roosevelt. Scores and scores of the delegates had never even attended a national G.O.P. convention before...
Into the Depths. Since Corregidor two long years have passed. Fresher violences have obscured the memory of Wainwright, the men who fought with him and the bitter story of national humiliation...