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...butchers' counters early were in luck if they found bologna or frankfurters. Thousands of housewives could find no butcher shop open in their neighborhoods. The National Association of Retail Meat Dealers estimated that at least 36,000 butchers had closed; many had dismissed their employes indefinitely. In Olympia, Wash., most butchers opened only two days a week - and hoped that a little something to sell would come along. In all Boston there was not enough beef to stock one good-sized meat store. In Maine there was a sharp increase in illegal deer hunting...
Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply...
According to Torrey Johnson, President Truman, after a Y.F.C. rally in Olympia, Wash., said: "This is what I hoped would happen in America." But not all Americans are so sure. Some view with alarm the pious trumpeting of the Hearst press on Y.F.C.'s behalf, also the support of rightish. rabble-rousing "nationalists" like Gerald L. K. Smith. Of this kind of criticism, Torrey Johnson says: "Maybe he [Hearst] saw a million people across the country were going to Y.F.C. rallies every week and he decided to get in on the selling end. I've never gotten...
Last night's concert rose from baseness in the weak, Romantic first piano quintet to high power in the second. In the intermediary phase, Olympia di Napoli, superbly accompanied by Miss Boulanger, used her middle and lower registers to great effect in the rendition of a group of songs...
...could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...