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...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
Other TIME subscribers are fighting yellow fever in Uganda, mining tin in Bolivia, teaching inside China. One is a customs inspector at Dar-es-Salaam; another is the President of Finland...
After the convention had run two days, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page cartoon, in four colors, showing Sidney Hillman playing Cardinal Wolsey to Henry Wallace's Cromwell (with a tin can tied to his robes). Earlier, the Tribune had called Sidney Hillman a "kingmaker," and enthusiastically described how he and Senator Harry Truman breakfasted over croissants and cafe au lait in Hillman's room at the Ambassador East Hotel. (Actually, they both had orange juice, bacon & eggs, coffee...
...Commission, said: "Mass production of ships will have to end with the war. The yards will compete for a maximum number of ships we can hope to build, about one hundred a year. What will happen to the other yards? We don't know the answer." But the tin-hatted workers in Richmond No. 2 could make a sound guess. The payroll at Kaiser's four Richmond yards has dropped from 93,000 to 73,000. It is still going down...