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These people can be stopped simply by putting pictures of participants on participation tickets. There would be nothing more uncomfortable than facing a ferocious name-taker who was looking malevolently from the picture on the card to the culprit's face. Revenues would be bolstered, the H.A.A. deficit would be out, and there would be a chance of playing some windless tennis...
...that she had become too depressed by the squalor she saw on Manhattan's lower East Side; another explained that her feet were killing her. The majority found the pay too small ( 7¢ a name), the work too dull or the insults too biting. Another Manhattan census taker was fired for filching a $202 check from a mailbox-but the Government had other plans...
...Sitter Odell Smith (address: Cloud No. 65), and one in Detroit obligingly returned three times to set down the facts about a housewife who refused to talk to him while her husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock. Not a soul lived in View Ridge any more...
...plans to free Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth of love...
...hrer. To blaze the way for another New Order, Zizendorf murders the unsuspecting Leevey and then beats to death harmless, helpless Herr Stintz, who had discovered the murder. As the census taker follows meekly along, as Madame Snow cheers enthusiastically and Jutta waits in bed, Zizendorf becomes Germany's new Fiihrer...