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Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had just thrown overboard as so much excess ballast. Speaker Joe Martin hustled down to Mobile, told the Alabama Chamber of Commerce: "It was the South which helped to hold the line for American enterprise through the trying years of the prewar experiment in Washington...
...number of students who achieved Group I has risen since 1920, and the percentage of men who stay above Group V has jumped from 38.4 percent through the 20's to 53.3 percent in the best prewar year and to 62.2 percent last spring...
...market's companies, all privately owned, keep their net earnings secret, but last year, with a boost in sales because of high meat prices, they had an estimated gross of more than $85 million, up 20% over prewar. Last month, when meat prices began falling, fish sales held up and in some cases even increased. Fishmen decided that "people had to eat so much of our stuff during the war that they finally got fond of it. It's the only food that hasn't been fouled up by being vitaminized, tenderized or homogenized." This year...
...square-topped pyramid balanced on twin sticks, still stalked the streets in his cap and dark blue cape. The portly headwaiter too, who greeted both Barbara Hutton and Marshal von Brauchitsch with the same bow, had weathered the storm without a ruffle. Georges, the pander of the prewar underworld, had actually improved his status; he was now a respectable black-marketeer...