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...Americans like to think of themselves as horselaughing individualists. In fact, says Brogan. ever since pioneer days the American wife, mother and schoolteacher have done a pretty successful job of making the menfolk conform. Town-proud Americans have felt that free-for-all "crab bing" is no way to build up a continent, have had short patience with individual ists and dissenters...
...centuries-work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...
...Nazis left, able-bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
Most of the feeling against the G.I.S is from our own men. The womenfolk think them most friendly, charming, generous and cheerful. The menfolk are jealous. Why? Because the girls like to be friends with the Yanks and, I suppose, naturally our soldiers feel mad because they don't get a chance with the girls...
...most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...