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...newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose articles have appeared in FORTUNE. Peripheral victim: the National Resources Planning Board...
Quickly Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who had been honing up his snickersnee, slashed away, too : the rubber program was "a sock in the jaw for the 100-octane program, has already cost us 7,000,000 barrels that are gone forever...
...though some are effective, Goldberg fans spent the most time with such famed Goldbergiana as the Boob McNutt series, Lala Palooza, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who demonstrates his Simple Bookmark, operated by the lifting of reading glasses, which releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb...
...their black, Indian-straight locks to a hairdresser (curls in front, ringlets in back), traffic-jammed the streets outside the hotel and outside the barnlike Maple Leaf Gardens where the Quintuplets bravely put on a special act for the Victory Loan drive. The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome sock-eroo. In red velveteen dresses, white shoes and socks, the girls rode onstage astride five white tricycles, dismounted, gathered at a mike, sang The Little House...
...hire a masseuse. And from a moment in which Robert Cummings is supposed to slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...