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They bought everything from racetrack tickets to cemetery plots; they even started paying old doctors' bills. Some people, like the oldster who lit his pipe with a 50-mark note last week, literally burned their money. Black-market prices soared: probably for the last time, one U.S. cigarette sold for 50 marks. After the reform, it was hoped, the cigarette-for three years Germany's generally accepted exchange medium-would again be something you smoked...
...Blackwell, the league's best pitcher. If the fence-busting New York Giants had two more good pitchers, they could take World Series orders this week. But the club other managers worried most about was the Boston Braves, which has a new doubleplay combination (Rookie Alvin Dark and Oldster Eddie Stanky) and a shrewd pilot, Billy Southworth...
When Duluth's temperature last week dropped to 25° below zero, it was thus saluted by a warm-blooded oldster, Manhattan Wit Franklin P. Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest cold of an extremely severe winter...
...picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...
...whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...