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Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10? a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8? too much for sirloin...
...Benchley got buttonholed by the New York Daily News's "Inquiring Fotographer," who asked them if they felt any different, now that they were celebrities. Cagney and Miss Lawrence answered no. Said Benchley: "When I started out on what you call my 'career' I weighed 143 Ib. and had never had an intoxicating drink. I always wore a 'Belmont' 14½ collar and did exercises to develop my neck. You ask me if I feel different today...
...ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches...
...flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak they fell apart when touched. The trial brought out greed as the reason for the plot: National Bronze got $270 a Ib. for accepted castings v. only 15? a Ib. for those scrapped...
...paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate...