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...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
...almost as if Gyp the Blood had wired that he would be a house guest. In Mexico City last week David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico's Big Three mural-ists,* revealed that he is about to visit the U.S. on the last lap of an "Art for Victory" tour of the American continents. Muralist Siqueiros (pronounced See Kay-ros), who was arrested for leading an armed attack on the Mexico City hideaway of the late Leon Trotsky which resulted in the kidnapping murder of the late Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan...
...particular pals are a slick con man, Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over to them the proceeds...
...Barnes studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, later at Manhattan's Art Students' League. She started to earn her living on the Brooklyn Eagle as an illustrator and reporter. For the New York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there...
...cure is just as easy to devise as the gyp itself. A requirement that all X-card holders obtain books of coupons, each worth a definite number of gallons, would solve the riddle. There need be no limit on the number of tickets a person may have, but every purchase of motor fuel must be accompanied by an exchange of coupons. Total sales for each station could then be easily checked against the number of coupons clipped. Some such arrangement, if adopted, would mean that New England's chances of having gas next fall need not depend on the activities...