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...Swivel-Soldiers...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...center of Navy's line, sent Plebe-Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard bulling through. When the Midshipmen closed up to plug the gap, Army blockers-with Blanchard generally in the van-shook Speedster Glenn Davis loose on the flanks. As they had done all year, Army's swivel-hipped backs went for distance once they got in the clear. Halfback Dale Hall slipped inside tackle and went 24 yards for one touchdown. Davis raced 50 yards around right end for another (his 20th of the season...
...added, "how long has it been since you left that swivel editor's chair to ride the Hump...
Money Talks Louis B. Mayer, M.G. Monarch just separated from his wife after 40 years of marriage, was separated from $560,000 of his proposed $1,060,000 salary for 1944 (his million-plus last year made him the U.S.'s highest-salaried swivel chairman). Loew's Inc., which signs M.G.M. pay checks, proposed the money-saving, as part of a program to provide a retirement plan for M.G.M.'s 4,300 workers (including William Powell, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy, whose annual pensions would be $49,700 each...