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Probably very few Canadians would now be interested. They had been lured by some very lush prizes: a $15,000 ranch or fruit farm "in sunny British Columbia"; a 1946 Lincoln Zephyr; an all-expense trip to Europe or $1,000 in cash; a $12,000 house; $500 Persian lamb coats; refrigerators, washing machines and scads of smaller consolation prizes. Among the most successful bingo operators in Ontario was the Lions Club of Ottawa, which has drawn as many as 8,000 participants to its monthly game in the barnlike Auditorium...
...ready to jangle enemy nerves. Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch, new deputy chief of naval operations for air, surveyed the Pacific war scene last week and proclaimed: "Task Force 58, which scourged the Jap so effectively in the last eight months, was just a sweet, summer zephyr compared to the . . . weapons-old and new-which are ready to lash...
...even coming to a halt. Simultaneously we will have to start the final stages of our plans for the laborious process of demobilization. In this we will find ourselves in the middle of a storm that will make everything else that we have gone through seem like a summer zephyr...
Between Zanesville and Massillon, last week, a black Lincoln Zephyr coupe zipped along U.S. 21. At its wheel was Earl J. Jones, the nation's newest chain-newspaper publisher. Eleven years before, Jones had rolled along U.S. 21 at the wheel of a truck that carried all of his few personal belongings. He was then a cattle dealer in bankruptcy, had dropped the name of Ralph Alonzo Stilwell to become Earl Jones, and was hunting a WPA job for himself. He found it at Zanesville...
...business if movie exhibitors did not buy News space. They did. When a large drugstore stopped advertising, Jones bought a rival store a few doors away. He spends part of most days behind its counters, and there he frequently entertains soldiers at dinner with his third wife (whose Lincoln Zephyr is a pale blue sedan). Earl J. Jones has given the Litticks and Zanesville plenty to think about. Last week he was the subject of juicy comment in Massillon and by editors all over the State...