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Like many a town with a war boom, Denver and its newspapers have been worried about how to meet the city's Johnny-come-latelys. One out of four Denverites (pop. 375,000), a recent poll showed, has arrived since 1940. A good many of them like to pelt the papers with dirty digs at Denver's manners, its dress, its cops, its way of life. Denver's anxious-to-please editors printed the gripes, and for a while did not talk back...
Peter van Pelt...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
Tally Hole! In the course of the Third Army's advance, Lieut. Jack Bradford jumped into a foxhole, found a real live fox in it, sent the pelt home to Atlanta as proof...
Robert E. Rayle, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert B. Ross, Jacksonville, Florida; Kendall G. Russell, Worcester; Peter B. Scamans, Salem; Ralph M. Swanson, Winchester; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., Weston; Mark Tuttle, Dover, New Hampshire; George A. Van Pelt, Sellersburg, Indiana; Vincent H. Vicario, Providence; Norman S. Walker, Jr., Peapack, New Jersey; Rolf C. Walther, Roselle, New Jersey; Francis deS. Woidich, Cambridge; and Richard W. Zamore, Montclair, New Jersey...