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Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
Wingate's Raiders. The British were frank in admitting that the Burmese campaign was bad. But the whole ledger was not written in red ink. An action reported last week was a hopeful note for the future...
...investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably working for Hitler. But the prospects when peace comes are all on I.T. & T.'s side of the ledger...
...instructors to whom will fall the thankless job of correcting those final masterpieces of ours. We did so want to leave a good impression, and then look what happens! Even if nobody but BuPers ever gets a look-in in what we wrote about civilian payrolls and stock ledger cards, we'll never fell quite easy about the whole thing...
Died. Charles Henry ("Bill") Sykes, 60, editorial cartoonist of Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger from its birth (1914) to its death (last January), onetime cartoonist for the old Life magazine; of a heart attack; in Cynwyd, Pa. William Jennings Bryan once asked him for an original cartoon Sykes had drawn of him; Sykes sent it, with a note: "Cartoonists all over the country secretly admire you . . . because without you our work would be much more difficult...