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Transportation is one habit which, the public may have to modify. The railroads are carrying more passengers than in any year since 1930 and are still looking for more (except on Washington trains and a few others). But motor transport is another story, because of the rubber shortage. For civilians, who have already cut their driving on the rationed East Coast by 55-65%. Dow Chemical's Thiokol (TIME, June 29) is the great white hope, with serious talk of enough by fall to retread 1,000,000 tires a month (out of 150,000,000 in use). Nonetheless...
...Vienna during the tragic days of the Anschluss, when Hitler's tanks and troops paraded endlessly through the silent streets—had his bags Gestapoed at the hotel every day for four days running by a Himmler agent with the odd habit of leaving little chromium swastikas as calling cards...
...letter from a village in the interior, asking that Uncle Tim admonish little José García for always picking his nose, putting the pickies on the furniture and upsetting his mamacita and papacito. "José," wheedled Uncle Tim on the radio, "that is a terrible habit. People won't like you if you keep...
...remaining birthday parties, to welcome the less fantastic of his admirers. They were not the common workmen he had written for, but those poets and cultivated hangers-on who are the fate of poets in general. He kept adding to Leaves oj Grass. It had become "a habit." He wrote Democratic Vistas, a book of prose more perceptive of the weak spots in U.S. democracy than anything Whitman had written before. He had outlived his pre-Civil War hopefulness, but he was still capable only of vague "orbic" statements about the leadership of "the divine literatus," and preached once again...
...Mutual, with a million young listeners who have the cowboys-&-Indians habit, had to have a substitute for the Lone Ranger. Just in time, the forsaken network remembered Red Ryder, "six feet of redheaded trigger lightning," famed in boys' books, N.E.A.-syndicated comic strips, cinema serials, and, oddly enough, first serialized for radio by the Blue, 16 weeks ago on the Pacific Coast...