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Soon after Pearl Harbor, the Press developed a Saturday feature called The Home Front, a four-column, brightly written condensation of Cleveland news about such everyday things as traffic accidents, deaths, fires, crimes, oddities, politics, sports. Readers were expected to clip the section, mail it to kinsfolk in the service. But ordinary mail took so long that the news was stale when it arrived...
...deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item...
...Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...
...when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in the West, he plodded up a narrow mountain path, holding the bridle of an opinionated mule. The view he saw was mostly the rump of the mule ahead; the sounds he heard were the clip-clip-clop of mule hoofs, labored breathing, an occasional heavy stumble over stone...