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...week the Chicken Little economists were running about the U.S. shouting cries of alarm. "Catastrophic inflation" is coming, they said, and quickly. To be sure, they had felt more than the ping of a single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices...
...Blasting" is the only way to describe the things Bill Davison can do with a horn. Though a ring-side seat will allow you to overhear the obscenely humorous patter of the dapper little man from Chicago, it is also an invitation to an earache. Wild Bill's current blasts are the best he's blown since he first packed his horn and came east ten years ago; and when he bounces on the balls of his feet, closes his eyes, and blares through the mouthpiece held carelessly to the side of his lips, that ringside seat--earache...
...intern who began his duties at Brooklyn's Women's Hospital soon after he got out of the Army in 1945 seemed to have everything. He showed the hospital authorities photostats of degrees from Scottish and German universities; medical patter rolled smoothly off his tongue. The confidence inspired by his earnest, sympathetic eyes and velvety bedside manner suggested that William R. MacLeod would go far in his chosen profession. Within the next few months he had helped deliver 475 babies...
Died. Lou Clayton (real name: Louis Finkelstein), 63, onetime partner of Jimmy Durante (with Eddie Jackson, they made one of the most popular horse-play-and-patter teams of the '20s), his manager since 1932; of cancer; in Santa Monica...
Such specialized patter will probably give no trouble at all to admirers of Comic-Strip Hero Buck Rogers and his legion of spaceship-flying, planet-exploring imitators. But to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while...