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...main fact which makes this book so homely-good is that its author's heart is in the right place: whenever it is not in his mouth, it's back in Montclair, N.J., with his wife Peg and his daughters Joan, Susan and Nancy. As a refrain, all through the account of fighters and fighting appear touching snatches from Peg's and the girls' letters-the perennials Peg won at a bridge game, Susan and her clarinet, Nancy's i sth-birthday trip to New York, the Girl Scout hike, the bicycle trek to Newark...
Equal Hasps. "Beachcomber" uses the hasp* situation as a peg for the blithe puncturing of postwar planners, youth groups, aged conservatives, bureaucratic red tape, military dignity (a favorite character is "Captain Foulenough"), political coalitions (the Independent National Anti-Coupon Pro-Caucus Semi-Conservatives) and many matters British. Thus...
...crew of 450 pollsters moved into the three Henry J. Kaiser-operated shipyards in the Portland (Ore.) area. In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S. Last week, Shipbuilder Kaiser, who footed the bill, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Commission, which helped poll, announced the statistical shocker: other than present employment, 86% of the workers have no postwar job in sight...
...soon as this man caught sight of her, he began to look himself over. Starting at the bottom with his pointed shoes, he began to look up, lifting his peg-top pants the higher to see fully his bright socks. His coat long and wide and leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum...
Canadians have their own gripes: the wood-fuel situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...