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...Main Street one day last week George F. Babbitt, Booster, ran into Honest Jim Blausser, Hustler. Above them (in the words of their creator, Novelist Sinclair Lewis) "the towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist...
...Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...
...Jacksonville lent him $1.5 million to help finance his ferry company. The Mills Industries Inc. (juke boxes, pinball machines, etc.) may put up $1 million in exchange for a stock interest and the amusement, bar and dining concessions on Williams' ferries. Once he has them built and operating, Hustler Williams has more plans. One of them: a chain of super-service stations along the drowsy highways of the islands...
...Hustler. In Cambridge, Mass., a patrolman tore up a ticket for speeding after the clergyman-driver explained, "Officer, you have to hustle if you're going to save souls." Mother Love. In the Marianas Islands, G.I. Jimmy Anderson, wandering about on patrol, came across a hen sitting on a nest which contained one egg and one live hand grenade...
Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...