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Rhapsody from Hunger (y). Spike Jones and his irreverent City Slickers (Victor) pull the tail of several old war horses, including Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, with the usual catastrophic results...
...week long, Price Stabilizer Michael DiSalle bustled around Washington with a satchelful of dummy regulations, pronouncements and memoranda. "When you bob a cat's tail," he explained, "you cut it off close to the body, not an inch at a time. Otherwise, you always have a sore tail-and a mad cat." Mike DiSalle's bosses in the mobilization high command agreed. All that remained was to determine just how close to the body to slice, and when...
Finally, one afternoon last week, the Government was ready to bob the cat's tail. Ten minutes before a scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price...
...half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers going...
Said Lieut. Jacob Kratt, flying top cover: "I rolled over and came down fast, and got in a good long burst on the No. 2 MIG. Smoke poured out of his tail, and he turned to the Manchurian side, and that apparently disorganized their attack, as two more of our flights made passes at the field, and nobody got bounced on his run. My wingman said that when he passed my MIG it was flaming...