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Thus, once again I stir from the obscurity of the "behind-the-scenes" life which is a Yeoman's fate, and take up my eager quill. All stray feathers resulting therefrom may be returned to the Navy Office...
...stunt, the Eagle put him on the air (with his head in a photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
...Chicago, the market is boiling. Prices of used uprights have doubled to $235, stocks of the popular new spinets (small uprights) have dwindled to the point where some stores are rationing them, selling only one a month. Dealers are scouring attics and haunting auctions to pick up stray instruments, are selling them by carloads, sight unseen, to Western and Southern buyers...
Newton Booth Tarldngton, 73-year-old, nearly blind novelist, was worried about Indianapolis' stray dogs. In the good old days before gas rationing many a motorist stopped at the pound on the city's outskirts, for $4 rescued a pup from homelessness or death. Now there were few such rescuers. To the Indianapolis City Council, about to debate opening a dog shop in the center of town, Novelist Tarkington wrote a letter: ". . . Out of the myriads of creatures upon the earth only one, the dog . . . crossed the vast abyss that separates the species ... I find few things...
...French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...