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...Lice Throwers" specialized in vermin. Every Saturday night they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...
...Rock-ribbed Republican Jesse Wolcott had little to fear in the way of questioning from his rock-ribbed Republican constituency on Michigan's Thumb. The Thumb's thrifty sugar-beet and dairy farmers sent Jesse Wolcott back to Congress even in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. He knows they are disgusted with the Administration's handling of the home front. His constituents, he learned, take for granted that Franklin Roosevelt will run for a Fourth Term and they will vote against him, no matter how the war is going. In his talks to luncheon clubs and his chats...
...Boss Caesar Petrillo last week spotted a hole in the dike he had raised against new phonograph recordings. Record companies were waxing singers with all-vocal (hence nonunion) rather than instrumental accompaniment (TIME, June 28). Petrillo quickly stuck his thumb in the hole, asked singers to quit doing that. His request was really an ultimatum. Vocalists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Connie Boswell well knew that failure to comply might bar them from future recordings or appearances with Boss Petrillo's union musicians...