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...than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...since the Revolution, two Committee members, Lawyer John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard, now a lieutenant colonel...
...finale on May 21 there was hurly-burly and hubbub on a first-night scale. Lush young models in picture hats drove 45 miles from Seattle. Half a dozen dairy greats flew 1,743 miles from Chicago for the event. Reporters swarmed around the platform where Capper posed behind velvet ropes. Milker Gockerell took his place, started to milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas...
...Team. Working together now, Smith & Coy have enough odd jobs to keep them busy from 9 a.m. to midnight, six or seven days a week. Their offices are prissy chambers on the second floor of the old State Department rookery; each has high ceilings, gold-velvet draperies withering around the windows, a fireplace of sickly chocolate marble, festoons of exposed pipe and wiring. Among this lavender & old lace sit the two streamlined gogetters...
Encore Album (Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 6 sides). Six engaging short pieces, ranging from the tried & true Swan of Saint-Saëns to Prokofieff's whimsical Masques, played with flawless style, velvet tone...