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Nevertheless, in marked contrast to his truculence towards businessmen only a few days before, Bowles showed a sweetly reasonable air. Then, he had stood up before the National Farmers Union in Topeka, Kans. and tonguelashed the "irresponsible, reckless, greedy organizations [who opposed price control] . . . the National Association of Manufacturers . . . the heads of the National Retail Dry Goods Association with all the phony propaganda . . . the real estate lobbies . . . the packers' lobby and textile lobby...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere...
...horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...
...railroad involved is the one celebrated in the now-familiar ditty by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. Miss Garland rides the railroad and sings the song for all and maybe a little more than it's worth. As one of the Harvey girls, she also fires pistols, plunges wholeheartedly into catfights with dancehall girls and falls in love with the owner of the local gambling den-bold, bad Ned Trent (John Hodiak). At bottom, of course, Ned is not too bad, for on the sly he reads Longfellow and admires...
...National Safety Council announced that on the home front, since Pearl Harbor, 355,000 had been killed through accident, and 36,000,000 injured. The great songs of season were Till the End of Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their...