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...wondered if he would be lucky in a new national lottery in which each worker was asked to spend 10% of his salary. Tousle-haired children in costume played in the parks. A baboon escaped from the Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia, tank soldiers, "intellectuals" and factory hands munching black bread at intermission time...
...that time, all the headliners were sore. They went to the mat with May. When May threatened to "call the whole thing off," the big shots decided to carry on-most of them flaunting their numbers defiantly on the backs of their pants. After the racket subsided, the tournament settled down to a one-man show-starring Defending Champion Byron Nelson...
...Racket. In Hattiesburg, Miss., a physician examining Private John Lafferty for entrance to the officers' training school applied his stethoscope, listened, rejected him, had him sent to a hospital. The odd noises the physician had heard were the crunching of hair on Private Lafferty's nappy chest...
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
Lambeth will miss him, especially its ex-convicts, admiring a man who operated on such a resplendent scale. He had achieved Britain's biggest charity racket since the palmy days of Horatio Bottomly. In the pubs they said: "There was more give away since they rumbled* 'im larst Christmas nor ever before...