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...with a thorough perusal of the newspapers, and she arrives at the office a little after 9. As a rule, work continues through lunch (invariably cottage cheese or fruit salads), with Mrs. Secretary issuing orders as she eats. It is 7:15 p.m., and often later, before her powder-blue, Government-owned Cadillac pulls up in front of the Connecticut Avenue apartment where she lives (along with such other tenants as the Alben Barkleys, Senator Eugene Millikin, Justice Tom Clark). Then, after a shower and a light supper, there is homework. Most nights, Oveta Hobby is hard at work until...
...open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening...
Special Delivery. In Middletown, Ohio, Letter Carrier Webster Newton opened a sidewalk mailbox to collect the outgoing mail, found a can of washing powder, four cans of cold beer, $11 in change, two keys, and 28 envelopes filled with scrap paper...
...candy; others asked the storekeeper to work out a complete diet for them. A San Francisco brewery got in the swim by advertising: "Regal Pale Is the Low-Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed him to enjoy a standard dinner...
High & Dry. A wallpaper paste for do-it-yourself paperhangers that dries slowly enough to allow plenty of time to slide the paper around is on sale in Sears, Roebuck stores. It comes in powder form for mixing with water. Price of a 1-lb. package, enough to paper a 10-ft. by 12-ft. room...