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...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...Shelton: "Because he lost his grip in Russia...
Vinegar-voiced Howard's "Board of Experts" are a help. They include his oldtime stooge, George Shelton; Jeeves-voiced Harry McNaughton, the "Bottle" of the old Phil Baker shows; and bawdy Lulu McConnell - veteran vaudevillians all. Their exasperating inability to answer timely questions. (Sample: Coffee rationing has been brought about by the shortage of what bean?) has been, for the past 15 months, a sanctuary for refugees from radio quizzes...
After a quarter of a century in & out of medicine shows, burlesque, vaudeville, Howard made the big time in Joe Cook's Rain Or Shine in 1928, hit $1,100 a week in Ziegfeld's Smiles, and then went to Hollywood with Shelton to store some of their deadpan senselessness in celluloid. Howard claims that "radio made a bum out of me" and he is reconciled to it. The hours are wonderful; he has to work only a couple of days a week; and for his unsophisticated radio audience there is no need to think up new material...
...Attu, belly wounds were predominant. The reason: green troops had not learned to hug the ground closely. During the later phases of Attu's fierce fight more men were wounded in the buttocks than anywhere else. This prompted the hospital's senior surgeon, Major Merriwell T. Shelton, of Augusta, Me., to observe: "A lot of soldiers wearing Purple Heart ribbons are going to have a hard time explaining how they got wounded...