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Author Craig Gilbert got hold of a good historical triangle in the Miles Standish-Priscilla Mullins-John Alden business, molded assorted Pilgrims and Indians into some stock but sound musical comedy characters, and came through with a creation that manages not to sag between the songs, which is no small feat. Nor do the songs delay the action of the book. Both come together into a balanced musical that is played with the sort of informal enthusiasm that can make a good amteur show more entertaining than all but the best of professional shows...
Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...
Burning Desire. In Sag Harbor, L.I., Firemen Francis King and Harold McErlean, arrested for setting a house afire, explained that they just wanted "a little excitement...
Under the truce, T.W.A. agreed to rehire all striking pilots by Dec. 1. But 15,000 other unorganized employees, bounced by the company without notice when flights were suspended, were less lucky. T.W.A. had optimistically tripled its force for overseas expansion. A sag in postwar transatlantic air traffic last week moved three other U.S. airlines to pare their payrolls (see BUSINESS). T.W.A. might prefer to keep its wings clipped...
...that the new cheap model will not push the old Reynolds off the market. But shipments of the older model had already fallen off (less than 125,000 will be shipped in August v. 450,000 shipped in June). This, Reynolds thought, was only part of the summer buying sag. Then why the cheaper model? Said Lamb: "The other firms will be making cheaper ones, so why should we wait...