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...pull to the American male and to the wives and secretaries who were worried about his figure. In January, the News gave the diet a routine run on the women's page until the Fat Boy offered a "slide rule for reducing,"-i.e., a vest-pocket chart which lists the calories in popular foods. The demand for the chart was so heavy (total: 87,596) that the News bannered the series on Page One. By last week, the Fat Boy had spread to 77 daily newspapers ranging from the North Bay (Ont.) Nugget (circ...
Biggest Enemy. The committee did not pretend that it could chart the workings of the organizations down to the last detail. But it was convinced that its probing had uncovered in Chicago one of the main springs of the whole nationwide crime net. Its name: the Continental Press Service...
...Namkwan Harbor on the China coast opposite Formosa. Gene Fluckey and his crew "cased the joint." Going in, the Barb was going to have to take its chances with the enemy minefields; going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort craft were afraid to follow directly. Shortly after 3 a.m. the Barb went in. It was a submariner's dream: some...
...Pleasure" shrewdly parodies the present undergraduate draft uneasiness with a "chances of Being Drafted" chart based on World Situation, declining eyesight, and class standing. And Charles Robinson's cartoon depicts a truck telescoped into a crevice in the road, with the bedraggled driver looking up at "Pardon This Inconvenience While Massachusetts Forges Another . . ." The other cartoons merely break up their respective pages...
...Subway goes astray, the Watch and Ward detective deals with a mean-eyed gun-toting John Marquand, and, to get out of Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...