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Bernard Conal, director of political organization for PCA, and James Loeb, executive director of the ADA, are also expected to garnish the list of speakers, while August Tyler, political director of the anti-Communist ILGWU-AFL, and George Markham, legislative director of the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur and Leather Workers-CIO are also expected to join the "faculty...
...Advertising a Washington fur sale, a gabby disc jockey substituted the word "potatoes" for dollars, cried: "You can get this coat for 497 potatoes." A paper-box factory foreman named Cecil Lineback took him at his word. He hurriedly bought the potatoes, rushed into the furrier's, and, after hours of heated negotiation, walked out with a sheared beaver coat...
After getting his big check from the state, Joe paid off the mortgage on his mother's house, set aside $4,000 for his son's education, saved most of the rest. He bought his mother a fur coat, paid for two operations she needed. Once in a while, his mother still worked as a scrubwoman. "It's not the money," she explained in her broken English. "I'm just lonesome for my friends." At 39, Joe was beginning to grey at the temples. He gradually lost some of his shyness, cracked an occasional joke...
...markings of the U.S. Fifth Army stood waiting. A news photographer, assigned to cover a royal reunion, wasted no glances on the strapping youngster in U.S. Army flying jacket who sat at the wheel. But when the big train braked to a stop and the pretty girl in the fur coat stepped off, she had eyes only for the jeep driver. "Hello, Michael darling," she trilled in English, running to him and planting an enthusiastic kiss on his cheek. "Hello, Anne," he stammered in blushing answer. "It's good...
Suddenly, at one of these halts, a blue Ford station wagon hove in sight, coming down from Konitsa. Out of it tripped a hatless, trim figure of a girl wearing woolen stockings, bobby-sox, a grey, fur-trimmed coat with an emerald bracelet peeping from the sleeve. "Hail, Boubou-lina!" bellowed the bishop.* The girl was Greece's blue-eyed, curly-haired, blonde Queen Frederika...