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...Change. The nation was full of confounding bustle. The U.S. was wholly in motion for the first time. Every night was like Saturday night. People filled the Broadways and Main Streets, crowded streetcars, buses, factories, restaurants, post offices, stood in line at bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys. In their tin hats, they worked together in San Francisco shipyards: ex-college professors, white-collar workers, women, Chinese, Italians, Negroes, WAAC uniforms marched two abreast down the narrow sidewalks of Des Moines; WAVE uniforms swished neatly up & down Stillwater, Okla. Soldiers packed the nation's hotels, spilled over into boardinghouses, slept...
...Soper's solution: evaporated canned milk for infants until they can eat a balanced diet; no milk at all for adults. Evaporated milk is sterile, keeps indefinitely in the tin, is always available without waiting for the milkman...
...evening, Tin Pan Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
...puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
...respects, a compensating substitute. That which it lacks in organization is made up for in keeness of competition. After all, the incentive of a first place in the chow line can hardly be compared with the nebulous reward of breaking an IC4A Record, or winning a little tin medal...