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...soldiers of this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South for maneuvers at Fort Benning this month, in Louisiana...
...primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good Old Bob," a man whom many new friends were trying to influence. Representing a rock-bottom (1938) legion of 353,000 Progressive voters in a wide-open primary, his nod might mean the difference between success & failure to hundreds of big & little shots...
...divorce mill, is a town of 18,500, with cinemas, dance halls, churches, a high school, a business college, a university (University of Nevada). Between the transient divorce-seekers and the permanent population of Reno there is a sharp line. Reno boys & girls pay no attention to its wide-open gambling halls. At its bars they drink only soft drinks. Few of them smoke...
...highly staminate Flower Belle, Mae West spreads her gorgeous corolla (including a butterfly bow that coyly punctuates her posterior rhythms) in Greasewood City, one of the West's wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes...
...years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt-for-Third-Term resolution, the committee picked nobody, declared for an open primary for the first time in ten years. Under the circumstances, it was the best break Joe Guffey could have looked for, because: 1) Joe controls...