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That first pass hurt our formation a lot. Forts were goin' down off our left wing-bing, bing, bing. Guys came balin' out of all but one. That one blew up-no pieces, even as big as a wheel, just tiny junk flyin' through...
...Manhattan. There were several thousand earnest easel paintings which WPA had somehow deemed "unallocatable." Dr. Win-the-War's Government had decided to liquidate the last traces of Dr. New Deal's great WPArt Project. *The bales of paintings jiggling on the truck were sold for junk...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
Boss of the Fifth Ward. Mike Scat is one of the more fragrant characters in U.S. municipal politics. Son of an Italian junk dealer, he went to high school and Georgetown University. Before he finished college, Frank Hague called him home to boss the Fifth Ward, where most of Jersey City's 70,000 Italians live...
...factor may knock predictions into the junk pile - unpredictable 80-year-old Henry Ford. For months, he has diligently streamlined his company, getting back to his first principles of cheap cars and no frills (TIME, Oct. 11). His low-price fetish once cracked the industry's price structure wide open. It may do so again...