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Cried the Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
...bright morning last week two pick & shovel laborers turned up at the house of Ralph M. Wilby in Burnaby, B.C. While a Canadian Mountie stood guard, they dug up the whole backyard, then the sides, then the front yard. Then they started digging up the neighbors' yard...
...time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel in the house: listeners heard a meek response from a Verona, N.J. mechanical engineer named Rudolph J. Wickel. Edwards, rising to the occasion, promptly announced that $1,000 awaited Mr. Wickel's shovel in the Holyoke lot. Mr. Wickel joined the gold rush, but failed to find the money...
...Princess and the Pirate (Goldwyn; RKO) takes shovel-nosed Bob Hope to the bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide...
...over the Reich desperate variations sounded on this single frantic theme: work and fight. Goebbels ordered eighth-grade pupils out of school into war plants. Battalions of German women formed pick & shovel brigades to strengthen the West Wall. A Swiss traveler reported that the first German women troops were already manning parts of the West Wall. The German nightmare-Einkreisung, encirclement-was coming true at last. And behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters...