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...Dixie's boss is bespectacled, pipe-smoking Raymond Erastus Hart, 47. Smart Mr. Hart learned the grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...
Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, erstwhile leader of the jazz-famous Five Pennies, got some publicity in the rat-ridden little California town of Albany. The Mayor had called for a good extermination plan. In an attempt to pied-pipe the rats, Nichols started tooting his trumpet in the center of town, started marching toward the Bay. A few children and photographers were all that followed...
Bombing Miracles. Pipe-smoking Arizona-born Dan De Luce, 32, worked a 48-hour week in A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau while attending University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was in the Balkans with his handsome wife when Germany invaded Poland. From Lwow he sent one of the war's first air-raid eyewitness dispatches: "As I write . . . 21 German bombers are raining heavy bombs. . . . The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. If [the hotel] holds...
...listen to the latest report on what junior said. One daddy with four children kept going through the tough infantry course by imagining how pleasant it would be if he only had his kids along to help him--one to carry his rifle, another his canteen, the third his pipe, and the fourth his slippers...
Will the Senator Pipe Down? Thus, for five hours, Senator Wheeler spoke to empty seats and took his heckling. Though his evidence was hearsay, he had made three points: 1) many a Government bureau is overstaffed, 2) many a war plant, particularly those with cost-plus contracts, has used occupational deferments to hoard unnecessary workers, 3) if U.S. manpower were used more efficiently, fewer fathers would be drafted. But Senator Wheeler had changed no one's mind about his bill to defer fathers. At the unanimous urging of Army, Navy, Selective Service and Manpower Commission, Congress will do nothing...