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Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...
...Stafford Cripps, austere president of the Board of Trade, was the prospective recipient of a somewhat pointed Christmas present. In London, one Desmond Leslie had read of the woman who wrote Sir Stafford telling him where he could buy bed sheets (TIME, Dec. 9). So he offered Sir Stafford "something I feel would be much more in your line"-an Indian bed of nails (a present to Leslie from a fakir...
...secretary replied that Sir Stafford "feels he must decline-with thanks...
...confused with Sir Stafford Cripps...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...