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...would like to be at your desk when the returns come in from the irate citizens of Butte, Mont. Your book review of Copper Camp (TIME, Oct. 4) must have stirred up the animals, "the wolves of copper...
Underworld. In Great Falls, Mont., whoever took Mrs. J. E. Grady's three steaks left 60 red ration points for her on the kitchen table. In Kansas City, whoever made off with S. W. Porter's car got with it a collection of religious tracts and Bibles. In Philadelphia, whoever looted Juggler Walter Burns's car got an assortment of Indian clubs, colored wooden balls, spinning plates, battered hats, trumpet...
...lights of Butte, Mont., when seen from the Continental Divide, have a strange, haunting beauty. But in the daytime Butte is anything but beautiful to look at-"by dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...Bullitt, elegant ex-Ambassador to France, now candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, got into trouble with the city's tax receiver about the city's tax on wages. The dapper diplomat was charged with not filing his returns for 1940, '41 and '42 until last mont, when he reported his three years' wages as 33,535.14 and paid a tax of $108.94. The tax man had wanted to hear more about the ambassadorial expenses for which Bullitt had claimed deductions, but had been reminded that all the embassy records were destroyed when the Germans entered...
...located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...