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...Kalish and Kiplinger had problems galore. General "Hap" Arnold was approached on the eve of the invasion of France, barely found time to fling a polite refusal. Henry Wallace had vest trouble-his shirt showed above his trouser line. Once that was adjusted, the Vice President struck a satisfactory, thumb-in-belt attitude. John L. Lewis loomed rather than posed, as though facing a hostile audience...
Other manufacturers will supply Westinghouse with such nonelectrical equipment as prefabricated buildings, portable lighting trucks, and sewage piping. But would-be purchasers are spared the bothersome details of dealing with many contractors. They need only thumb through the catalogue, order Type A or Type D. Units are ready for delivery now-by air if necessary...
Contact Dick Oster for a thumb-nail sketch of the nurses down at the Red Cross Bank. He has them classified according to the line of chatter they use before making...
Ashley's Book of Knots is a monument to 40 knotty years and a magnificent nose-thumb at the paper shortage. Ashley spent eleven years writing and illustrating its 620 pages. He tells the names, sources, histories and uses of 3,900 knots, supplies some 7,000 drawings to help explain how to tie them...
...found a spot in Billy Rose's raucous show at the Fort Worth Texas Centennial, and another at Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair. His comeback was rapid. He is a confessed millionaire, many of whose investments are under the shrewd thumb of Joseph P. Kennedy, but he has never taken himself too seriously. "Success," Morton Downey says, "has gone to my hips...