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...Close Those Cracks Caulk and weatherstrip around doors and windows to plug up air leaks...
...family anger takes different forms. Pearl becomes a compulsive handyman. "All she wanted was to be allowed to get on with what mattered: calk the windows; weatherstrip the door. With tools she was her true self, capable and strong." Son Cody finds his outlet as a time-and-motion consultant. The richer he grows weeding out waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line...
Automatic Door Bottom. A gadget that automatically shuts off under-door drafts, dust and noise was put on sale by Minneapolis' Reese Metal Weatherstrip Co. Easily fitted onto wooden doors, the device has a torsion spring that automatically retracts a felt-edged aluminum bar when the door opens, allowing the door to swing freely over carpets or rugs, then forces the bar snugly against the threshold when it closes. Price: $2.75 to $3.45, depending on size and color...
...more than one chance in 100 that he would be drafted.* Many a young man submitted good-naturedly to corner-store gibes at his certain fate. The jokes that were cracked were, more often than not, 1917 jokes, even such transmigratory Liberty Bond characters as Ed Wynn's "Weatherstrip" (so called because he kept his father out of the draft). The U. S. moved uncomplainingly on toward Registration...
...punctuated by musical selections. Typical Wynn prattle: "The opera tonight. Graham, is very unusual ... the title of it is 'When You Were Eight and I was Nine and We Were 17.' ... It's about a boy and a girl . . . the boy's name is J. Weatherstrip Reilley. ... He was born during the World War and they called him Weatherstrip because he kept his father out of the draft. The boy has so many wrinkles on his forehead ... he has to screw his hat on his head. . . . On his vest is dangling a golden charm...
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