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From peers to paupers the major chitsy-chatsy of Londoners was how they got fugitive eggs, lipstick, fruits, silk stockings, perfume, clothes. At a dinner party recently a peer's daughter triumphantly announced that she had persuaded her dressmaker to sell her a new suit without the required coupons. A politician's wife proudly reported buying a fur coat (18 coupons) with no coupons whatever (she contended the garment was secondhand because it had been worn by a mannequin...
...hand over his wife's kitchen aluminum; to fork out for the Community Chest, the Czechs, Poles, Dutch, Belgians, French, Spanish, Chinese, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Finns, the Red Cross, Norwegians, British and the U.S.; to pay more taxes, use less gasoline, strike less often, have his wife go without silk stockings. Federal officials punched the needle into him with alternate injections of numbing anesthetic (to keep him quiet while taxes were extracted) and hyper-stimulant (to get up his dander against Hitler...
...occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman (with a cute script) kept the program rolling. He discussed the spider situation with a Cleveland professor who has made a specialty of extracting spider silk direct from the producer for cross hairs in range finders. He introduced, as "the nation's No. 1 No man," Priorities Chief Donald M. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson told the nation why. For drama, Maurice Evans wheezed through a condensed version of Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge...
...dance not only plugged defense but was a feature of the RCA-Victor Dance Caravan, touring the Midwest in a ten-car special train. In four days, 23,000 youngsters jitterbugged to music by Tommy Dorsey and Shep Fields, gawked at the $100,000 props (palm trees, waterfall, blue silk ceiling) taken from the disastrous Dance Carnival opened last summer by Monte Proser in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, June...
...backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...