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...plan worked so well that by 1946 he had become the biggest U.S. producer of whiteware. The town was more prosperous than ever before, thanks to the 825 jobs and to the fat bonuses passed out by Lew Reese; in 1946, he gave his workers $705,000 at year's end. But last Christmas, as he prepared to pass out another $423,000, trouble caught up with Lew Reese. His plant burned down, and he had bought no fire insurance...
Instead of getting the bonuses, the townspeople took up a collection of $1,000 to help Lew Reese. Then they went out and helped him clean up the blackened wreckage of the plant. Even Jay Spiker, the town banker, joined in. Said Reese hopefully: "We'll be turning out cups and saucers here in two months' time...
...Lew and Peter share an apartment in New York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates...
Three more have gone for good; graduation has claimed linemen Johnny Crocker and Bob Feloney, while Lew Preston has passed up the honor of playing for the Crimson to cast his lot with the A.A.U. Olympic pretenders. On the positive side of the ledger, ace defenseman Charlic Coulter has recovered from pneumonia and is ready to resume his duties, John Monroe will bolster the goal-guarding staff, Jack Carman is up from the freshman team, and Chase has hopes for the return Bill Garrity to duty...
...miles distant. Some time after the battle, he got a leave of absence to visit Indiana, see the dentist, buy some summer clothes. The governor asked him to make recruiting speeches. He said he would rather be in the field. The governor said, "There is nothing doing there." Thus Lew Wallace learned that he had been relieved of his command...