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...touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from women, and mostly wanting money...
...pass at a girl, was killed because the Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been placed, with fantastic bad taste, en route to Hiroshima. The laugh: a flyer asks, "Is it true that if you fool around with this stuff long enough, you don't like girls any more?" Says Robert Walker, "I hadn't noticed...
...examines Joe Keller, an airplane parts manufacturer. With two sons of his own in the war, Keller is guilty of having sent other men's sons to their deaths by shipping out defective cylinders. Worse still, he let his partner go to prison for it. Keller's flyer son, Larry, engaged to the jailed partner's daughter, has been missing in China for more than three years. His other son, the idealistic Chris, has come home, swallowed his father's protestations of innocence, and arranged to marry his missing brother's fiancee. But Chris...
...concert tours: "If a flyer is taken with an American composition it had better be flashy, glib or cute. It must make an instantaneous hit on its first hearing or it will never get another...
Designed to fill what the H. L. U. terms "a need for a serious magazine in the college," the 20-page publication replaces The Student Progressive, four-page Liberal Union magazine published since 1944. The new Progressive appeared for the first time in December as a special Chicago Conference flyer, and was distributed at the student meetings there...