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Along Came Jones (International-RKO Radio), Gary Cooper's first effort as a producer, is also his first Western since The Westerner (1940). The result turns out to be something like watching a grown man roll a hoop. Dyed-in-the-wool Cooper fans, and Western fans, may find the whole thing a little painful. But people who take neither Cooper nor Westerns seriously may be agreeably entertained...
Republican bosses, out of power so long that they could not find a dyed-in-the-wool GOPster, were confronted with a choice between two Democrats. They picked one Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
Coats cost from $12 to $25, suits about the same or a little more. Wool dresses cost $10 to $25. These were price ranges for strictly utility wear which could be found without too much hunting. Glamor could be found only in the Bond Street (London's Fifth Avenue) or Grosvenor Street shops, which specialize in French models -and glamor was expensive last week...
...Production Board repeated that the future will hold even fewer cotton and wool goods for U.S. civilians. Reason: the Army demands a complete new outfit for the more than 3,500,000 soldiers going to the Pacific...
...scrotum which keeps it at 2 to 15° below normal body temperature. Experimenters have caused temporary sterility in dogs, rabbits, cats and bulls by artificially heating their testes; Australian sheep breeders recently reported that a sterile breed of rams became fertile when a thick growth of wool on their testicles was sheared...