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...friend, Barrymore was seated in a car with a crotchety old stranger who objected when John took a nip from a flask. "If you have no respect for the surroundings," chided the oldster, "you might have some for me-I am 97 years old." Jack gazed out at the graveyard, murmured: "There doesn't seem to be much point in your leaving the place...
...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...
...California hospital, where he was recovering from rabbit fever) is his office assistant. The moving spirit of "No Work, No Woo" is a 23-year-old brunette ex-Hollywood model, Jeannine Christiansen, a daughter by his first marriage. She is a $1.32-an-hour plate burner on the graveyard shift, and by turning down a date from a shiftless worker gave her father his catchiest anti-absenteeism campaign...
Toolmaker Schooler (now on the graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since...
...Tennessee's freshman Congressman Jim McCord, of Lewisburg, learned at first hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good...