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Rocking-chair Salesman Harry Boling is no man to sit back in his rocker and let the world go by. As a Midwestern representative of the King Specialty Manufacturing Co. of Mayfield, Ky., he sold $100,000 worth of furniture last year, hopes to double it this year. Nevertheless, Salesman Boling thought he was missing a potentially huge market, and wrote to his Congressman, Indiana's Republican Earl Wilson, to ask him to do something about it. Wilson solemnly entered Boling's tongue-in-cheek letter in the Congressional Record...
...request that you obtain for me a subsidy on our platform rockers. We are now making about 1,000 a year, and are eager to step this production up to 50,000 . . . Since you are voting money for potatoes, cotton, tobacco, railroads, aviation and many other industries, I see no reason why we . . . should be slighted. Now, we would like a guaranteed price of $50 each for these rockers. In the event we are unable to sell all of them, we will arrange to burn them right here at the factory rather than go to the expense of shipping them...
Coward plays a sedately married London psychiatrist who goes off his rocker over a flighty, glamorous divorcee (Margaret Leighton). His devoted wife, played by Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson, introduces them, goes conveniently off to her mother's place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...
...remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre cattle empire, Red Wells, from a veranda rocker...
Last week Hennenman was cleaner and safer than it had been for years, but Willem van Rensburg, the self-appointed health commissioner, was in a mental hospital for observation. Said one Hennenman shopkeeper: "Some say he's off his rocker, but I think he's all there. He did a fine job for the town...