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Once a week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the-street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...cans. There is no food obtainable in New Guinea beyond a few paw paws, bananas and coconuts. Supply officers still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...
...started as a party and ended as a brawl, but this Hollywood party was different: the actors behaved, the employes behaved like actors. About 4 a.m. at Errol Flynn's 32nd birthday party, the butler, lent for the occasion by Barbara Mutton, squared off with the actor's secretary and standin, who had once been a butler himself. The Hutton butler, said the Flynn standin, swung first. The Hutton butler, from his hospital bed, said no. The Flynn stand-in said the Hutton butler had called him a name. The Hutton butler remembered little. Flynn stood...
Beef and veal production was up 20% in the January-April period, but the full year's output may not show as big a gain. Lamb and mutton marketings show almost no gain. Main reason: sheep are finicky creatures, and nasty weather "impaired" the spring lamb crop. Chicken-ranch owners, meanwhile, have boosted production...