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...more than six decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
...Times's tabloid baby will probably be christened the Mirror. When it toddles out into the afternoon field against Hearst's rough & tumble Herald & Express, Los Angeles may see its lustiest newspaper scrap in a generation. Momentarily on the sidelines, rival Publisher Boddy told the Times to take heart: "Nearly a quarter of a century ago," he wrote, "we adopted a penniless, tattered little brat that was languishing in bankruptcy . . . It kept on keeping on until it has, I fear, become somewhat respectable. So chin up, Norman, it can be done...
...that the Russians have a supersensitive pick-up that eavesdrops on a conversation over the telephone, through voice vibrations in the room, even when the instrument is not in use.) But in Czechoslovakia today, people simply aren't the kind who swarm into the streets looking for a scrap. Right now, I think they are just bemoaning their fate, and secretly hoping to be liberated by war between Russia...
There are three lines of pillboxes around Changchun. At the outermost, Nationalist soldiers subject every departing refugee to rigid inspection. The authorities are glad to see civilians leave, since there will be fewer to feed, but no one may take anything metallic such as pots or pans (scrap for bullets), gold or silver (representing forbidden speculation or flight of currency) or salt (vital commodity...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...