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...traditional prewar contest will be resumed on Friday afternoon when the Crimson Jayvee eleven faces Coach Henry Lamar's Freshman eleven, in a game which will give College football afficianados their first opportunity to see the Yardling squad in action. Kickoff time is 2:30 o'clock, and the site will be the fenced-in practice gridiron at Soldiers Field, with admission by H.A.A. participation books...
...alarmed New York Telephone Co. reported that daily calls had risen to a whopping 12,815,000 after V-J day-over a third more than the average prewar chatter. Conversations over private lines were getting longer & longer; wires were especially busy on rainy days, Mondays, and days after holidays. Observed the New York Daily News: "The telephone people aren't telling which sex gets on a busy wire and talks for half-hour stretches about two-egg cakes and such things. We're not sticking our neck out, either. . . . We've just got an epidemic...
Josephine Baker, golden brown toast of prewar Paris music halls, was in a Neuilly hospital, making slow recovery from an intestinal ailment. She had a new piece of finery: a Medal of Resistance, with Rosette, given her for aiding French Intelligence in Lisbon and North Africa early...
Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...
Dolls, the toy trade's staple, will have their biggest year yet, with estimated sales of $40,000,000. Items: a new version of the famed Kewpie doll, now making a successful comeback with close to a million orders so far; a doll with the prewar plastic skin; a freer flowing version of the rubber Dydee doll, a wartime casualty...