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...this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South for maneuvers at Fort Benning this month, in Louisiana and Texas...
...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...
...Phenix City, Ala., a prosperous town of 13,862 inhabitants, you can buy pretty much everything in the way of standard U. S. commodities, entertainment, even a good many luxuries. But if you want to read a book in Phenix City, you must either borrow one or go across the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, Ga. Phenix City has no bookstore. It has no library either...
...Phenix City is a good example of a bookless U. S. town, but it is by no means unusual. Literary deserts also are Shelbyville, Tenn. (pop. 5,010), Picher, Okla. (pop. 7,773), Jenkins, Ky. (pop. 8,465), Kingsford, Mich. (pop. 5,526), Manville, N. J. (pop. 5,441), many another U. S. town. Of 3,072 U. S. counties, 897 have no libraries. Of 982 cities over 10,000 population, 40 are libraryless. Thirty-two million people (geographically two-thirds of the U. S.) have no bookstores...
Sabotage on the Squalus was ruled out by the weight of testimony against the air valve and signal mechanisms. The Squalus board, of course, had no word to say about the British Thetis and French Phenix, whose loss naval officers attribute to the accepted fact that submarines are innately dangerous craft, which by the laws of probability should sink more often than they...