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...What," asked Kieran, "is the mean approximate distance from the earth to the moon?" (Answer: 239,000 miles.) "Who served the shortest term in the Presidency?" (Answer: William Henry Harrison.) After twelve such questions the guests, who had been served dry sack, Riesling, Burgundy, champagne, brandy and liqueurs, laid down their pencils with a collective sigh. Forty schoolteachers took over the job of correcting papers...
When Field also lost a job as barkeep in Canberra's Hotel Kingston, he charged that the Brigadier had brought pressure through a brewery to have the hotel sack him. His wife (once the Governor-General's cook) also found she could not land a job. The Fields complained to the Canberra Trades & Labor Council that they were being "victimized" by the Brigadier...
...fiction writers laid one golden egg after another and sold them for golden prices. The public craved, and was given, gulps of cloak-&-dagger melodrama or sack-suit passion. Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book. Among the bestsellers...
Sergeant Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove, whose best-selling book made him perhaps the richest alumnus of Yank, signed up for a lecture tour, plans to write another book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo slipped through an anti-Bilbo picket line around his Washington apartment-by disguising himself as a laundryman with a sack slung over his shoulder. "I just went on about my country's business," he crowed...