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When it comes to problems there are two kinds of people: those who prefer to take 'em straight--all pertinent points and no trimmings--and those who think they are more fun with the philosophy and red herring thrown in. We'd like to share our prize catch with...
Streamliner. An ex-Governor and ex-Senator from Iowa, Clyde LaVerne Herring, will prune deadwood from OPA. Clyde Herring's first chore will be a top-to-bottom survey of OPA. Separate price, rent and rationing control offices may be combined, the eight regional offices may be erased. Clyde Herring will look for ways to consolidate service, eliminate waste...
...Oklahoma the signs are encouraging. When the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision convicting Alan Shaw, Eli Jaffe and Ina Wood for membership in the Communist Party and possession of literature, most of which can be found in Widener's stacks, the Red Herring was thrust back into its barrel. But the people who prosecute Communists because they are Communists, and the law which they used for their drive against local Reds, are still extant, and their disregard of the Bill of Rights can continue to damage civil liberties...
...apartments went unheated, electricity was turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas of Dyed Moross (Granddad Frost). There was no smoked salmon, no pickled herring, no goose, no vodka, no coffee for the grownups. But there was rejoicing. The Rodina (Motherland) had been saved for the second time in two years and now victory and peace could...
Behind the fleeing Germans and Italians was a littered trail: ledgers, military manuals, permits for furloughs, letters from home; tins of Danish hams, Norwegian herring, Dutch sausages, French wines, Munich beer; trumpets, tubas, drums (to be used in Rommel's triumphal procession into Alexandria) ; women's underwear, silk stockings, cosmetics; brandy and champagne; arms, cannon, machinery, tanks; trucks trapped by sudden rains that had turned the marshlands around Buqbuq into seas of mud. Beside the coast road lay the German dead, grey faces hidden by the peaked caps of the Afrika Korps. Beside them lay their Italian allies...