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Pembroke decided to auction off its police station to the highest bidder. Weare sold its tramp house for $1 - cash. Dorchester recessed at noon for a hot dinner and homemade fudge. Oldtimers pondered Surry's attendance-the smallest town meeting in years-and concluded that "everybody's working." Mason was pleased that its police department cost only $8 in 1944, but voted to give it an additional $17 for 1945. Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office...
...Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...
...twilight time between war's end and peacetime industry's resumption, how many men will tramp the streets looking for work? At least four or five million, says Richard Allen Lester, associate professor of economics at Duke University. In the newest study sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (Providing for Unemployed Workers in the Transition; McGraw-Hill $1.50), Economist Lester gave his formula for easing the shock of mass unemployment on the nation and its workers...
...when Emil slashes to ribbons the portrait of his martyred anti-Nazi father, calls Leona a Jewish tramp, bullies a Polish boy and blackmails a little girl into lying about it, tries to force his uncle's desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck...
...spread over the battlefield by 24 inches of rainfall in 30 days (far worse than usual, even for Leyte) and was kneaded day & night by the treads of tractors and tanks, the wheels of trucks and cars, the tramp of a quarter of a million feet...