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When 20-year-old Betty Ackerman, a waitress from Menominee, Mich, arrived there Last June, she paid Mrs. Stertz $7.50 a week for a small room which she snared with two girls. Later, she was moved to a room with two other girls, had her rent hiked to $8.50. Betty kept mum until Mrs. Stertz moved her to a third room...
...businessmen unable to produce at a profit, housewives with unsettled squawks against their butchers, had made OPA a national whipping boy. The dilemma was twice dramatized last week. In Manhattan, veterans unable to get shirts marched naked-to-the-waist into the OPA office. In Chicago, a young waitress, shamelessly overcharged for a shameful room, had to run to the Administration-hating Tribune, instead of to the OPA, for a hearing (see Housing...
Harry Truman, the President of the United States, was no longer in the forefront of public interest. Said a San Francisco stenographer: "You just sort of forget about him until he makes some sort of mistake." A waitress in Harry...
...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...
...wheeled wildly, found his avenue of retreat blocked by a waitress. She patted his head and asked the cashier, "Is this your little boy, ma'am?" Cornelius shrieked, "Cut that out. This is a stickup." He jammed one pistol into the waitress' starched uniform. A second later she was shaking him angrily. One of his guns fell to the floor and broke into four pieces. The police came, took the money away from him, hauled him off as a delinquent. He did not cry. "I made a mistake somewhere," he said, "I saw it all done...