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Czechoslovakia's Communist regime last week moved decisively against a new enemy of the people: the pin-up girl. The Czech army, reported the Prague radio, had ordered that all her kind be pulled down from barracks walls and in her place soldiers would see "slogans, pictures of shock workers and examples of our fighting tradition...
...Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened its 75th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...
...shares the disease with rodents, and the germ is carried to man by rat fleas. The West, in its great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...
...Deadest Dump." After nine days, the police let Lucky go. They were unable to pin anything on him, but last week they handed him a foglio di via obbligatorio-a document compelling him to report within four days to the police at Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...
...fell from 25⅞ to 10¼. In November 1946, Straus had bought control of the Schick injector razor, looking for a cushion against hard times. He got a cushion all right (the razor division helped Eversharp show a $1.2 million profit last year), but there was a big pin in it. The pin was R. Howard Webster. To get the razor company, Straus had to take Webster, a big Schick stockholder, into Eversharp as a director. That was the beginning of Straus...