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...talking and writing in a back-porch patter, Cedric has convinced nearly everyone in Minnesota that he is his personal friend. On radio station WCCO, he is more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...understand Main Street. Novelist Lewis' style might be rasping and insistent, but it was no more complicated than a buzz saw. Main Street's narrative neatness made it as readable as a Saturday Evening Post story. And Author Lewis had a phonographic knack for recording the hodgepodge patter of U.S. provincial speech that at best was inspired, at worst vivid vaudeville. As a storm of controversy whipped up the sales, Main Street ran through eleven printings in less than four months...
...Navy was first to hack away. Before the Jap surrender offer had become poop-deck patter, it stopped construction of 95 ships, canceling contracts totaling $1.200,000,000. Halted in various stages of construction were the 45,000-ton battleship Illinois, the 27,100-ton carriers Iwo Jima and Reprisal, 20 heavy and light cruisers. (Still abuilding were 167 Navy ships, including one battleship, eleven aircraft carriers; still unanswered: what to do with the partly built battle hulls...
...Brazilian political patter, Queremistas (we want-ers) are tub-thumpers for President Getulio Vargas. In Rio last week, the Queremistas, with or without presidential encouragement, thumped resoundingly. In Brazil's Federal District they shouted: "We want Getulio...