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Eventually the Swedes may shave their price to within OPA's price limits, and so restore their prewar export market for 1,000,000 tons of pulp a year to the U.S. But it was reported that the first three shiploads of pulp to sail through the Baltic this week were not bound for the U.S.; they were headed for Britain, Portugal and Argentina. These countries are more aware than OPA that prices for pulp and other commodities in the world markets cannot always be regimented to fit domestic price controls. Last week, in fact, ' the Swedes were...
...home, the news came to people in the hot soft light of the afternoon, in taxicabs, along the streets, in offices and bars and factories. In a Cleveland barbershop, 60-year-old Sam Katz was giving a customer a shave when the radio stabbed out the news. Sam Katz walked over to the water cooler, took a long, slow drink, sat down and stared into space for nearly ten minutes. Finally he got up and painted a sign on his window: "Roosevelt Is Dead." Then he finished the shave. In an Omaha poolhall, men racked up their cues without finishing...
Veteran Sergeant Crowne shaves with floor soap ("Cold water, good rough soap and a bluntish blade, and you know you've 'ad a shave"). He calls Sergeant Hands "Ramon Novarro," because Hands uses brushless shaving cream and washes in a bucket. Fatty Teedale is "the only man in the Brigade of Guards who . . . bites his toenails" ("It makes my blood run cold to hear him"), and keeps the most promising growth for "a long bite . . . after Church Parade." Slugging Private Alison dreams of a hand-to-hand fight-to-the-death between Churchill and Hitler ("Old Winnie breathes...
Mauldin jeeped for 36 hours to reach Patton's HQ, turned up scrubbed, shaved and saluting. Complained Patton: Mauldin's cartoons were playing hob with morale; not every soldier could wash and shave every day, but some who could didn't, just to look like Mauldin characters. Replied Mauldin in effect: the only Army morale his cartoons ever hurt is in high places. After 45 minutes with Old Blood & Guts, Young Gags & Grime emerged grinning, reported last week: "I came out with all my hide on. We parted good friends, but I don't think...
...Goodrich, the civilians promised not to shave until the drive was over, shaved absentee civilians on their return to work and cut their trousers off at the knee-signifying an ignominious return to boy status. Workers at the U.S. Rubber plant chipped in to form a $10,000 pool, to be divided among workers in departments with the highest "presenteeism" rate...