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...Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side at any given moment...
Cigars, Pecans. Some of his callers left gifts: a box of Philippine cigars (though Harry Truman does not smoke), a 10-lb. sack of pecans from a Louisiana Congressman (to remind him that there was an overproduction problem in pecans), a pair of engraved brass spurs (from the citizens of Monahans, Tex.). More were looking for presidential favors: Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall (a job for a friend), Philadelphia Realtor Albert Greenfield (a speech date), San Diego Journal Editor John Kennedy (a veterans' hospital...
...Past-this Christmas issue of TIME, with its reports on how Americans are moving into the Christmas of 1948, may serve to remind you of some of TIME'S Christmas stories of other years...
...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
During the war, Shankar was forced to close the Culture Center which he built in Almora to remind India of its ancient dances. Now, at 48, he hopes to open another one. Shankar's crusade to give Indian music back to the Indians has not always been easy. For much of modern India, with its "hateful, rotten towns, its drinking and enjoying," he cares little. The Indian public doesn't always care for Shankar either, he admits. It thinks his art is often "too high-no cheap songs," says Shankar, "no cheap jokes...