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...Delhi wag suggested: "It looks like a swap. The Japanese will get India and the Allies will get Burma." But even if Stilwell should be cut off by the Japanese thrust at Imphal, it might be possible to supply him by air, although with great difficulty during the monsoon. Much worse would be the very serious reduction, if not elimination, of supplies for China over the Hump...
Last week, homeward bound in a U.S.Vichy diplomatic swap, the two ex-prisoners met in a Lisbon hotel lobby...
...week, picks up his $2,500 weekly salary, and departs. He suffered horribly getting together a radio show (with stooges Beetle and Bottle) from 1933 to 1939, but now he observes: "No stooges, writers, worries to worry about. . . . [Jack] Benny is crazy. Benny should quit. I wouldn't swap with him, Hope, Allen, for all the money in the world. The moment a show is over they start worrying about next week. They eat and sleep with radio every minute...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...
...popularity of Arpad and his little nephew, Gabe (who was added a year or so ago as a stooge), has reached beyond the city limits. Last March Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week...