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...World War I. Their streetcars, owned by four different companies (all in receivership) and operated by a fifth, are oldfashioned, high-riding trolleys ("antediluvian arks"), 75% of which were built before Harding campaigned on his front porch. And they are so crowded that many Chicagoans cannot even reach a strap to hang...
...fair Wyoming morning last week, Hollywood's Wallace Beery rose up early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
What made Rancher Beery, and all his neighbors, strap on their six-guns was a sudden executive order by Franklin Roosevelt, turning the entire Jackson Hole valley (221,000 acres) into a national monument, in the care of a man whom Western cattlemen loathe extraordinarily: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
Only after the prince has departed does the preoccupied Saint-Exupery remember he has neglected to draw a strap to hold the muzzle in place. Says he: "Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: Is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes...
...high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...