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...Literal Friend. In Birmingham, a passerby investigated a rustle in a curbstone wastebasket marked PLACE LITTER HERE, uncovered a dog and her litter of four...
...artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West Coast. Everyone who knows himp gives him top marks...
...Pierre Laval's nosing around Vichy failed, Adolf Hitler might force Vichy's assurances to the U.S. into the wastebasket. This week it was rumored that Vichy had halted the Riom war-guilt trials, quite possibly because they had outraged Hitler (TIME, March...
Last week, when Portland women got runs, they did not toss their laddered stockings into the wastebasket. Instead they sent them to the Salvation Army, where they were fumigated, packed. Then they were stuffed into the crates of fighting planes, en route to China...
With reckless good will, the U.S. public annually buys, sends and throws in the wastebasket an estimated 30 million dollars worth of Christmas cards.* Among the few thousands that don't go regularly into wastebaskets-just sometimes-are reproductions of art. The demand for Christmas cards done by artists has resulted in a growing business (about $500,000 in 1940). Today many a U.S. artist, selling up to 50,000 cards at a 10% royalty, makes a considerable part of his annual income at Christmas...