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...elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking how to convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit) which appeared...
Look Out. In Tulsa, a "Let's Swap" column listed: "Exchange. Unused engagement and wedding rings. Want automatic shotgun...
...would like to swap, let Britain have the southwest and take Britain's area, which includes the Ruhr, the Rhineland and the North Sea coast. Reason: U.S. supply lines, already stretched across the Atlantic, would be somewhat shortened by access from the North Sea. A possible compromise: joint U.S.-British occupation of all of western Germany...
...this rattlebang old stage hit by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (Little Accident, 1928) Mr. Cooper comes by his crushing responsibility somewhat unconventionally. For some time, in fact, as Cooper and his prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that he is the father of one of cinema's rare bastards, and a farcical one at that. For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns...
...week businessmen and bankers who once fought "Bible Bill" supported his successor, 35-year-old Ernest Charles Manning. The result: Social Crediters, 47; C.C.F., 2; Independents, 3; Veterans' candidate, I; with Social Crediters leading in the four remaining ridings. Said an Albertan: "We didn't want to swap a light case of chickenpox for a bad case of smallpox...