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With his habitual air of grumpy wisdom, Herbert Hoover last week summoned up a ghost: the ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler. Said Ames: "If Bonaparte prevails [in Europe], we will be his vassals. . . . Britain fights our battles. . . . One single hope of security is the British Navy. ... If Russia is disarmed...
Remote Porthmerryn on the west coast was divided into Downalong (the fishing proletariat), Upalong (the swells) and the visiting Artists. People there seemed "rather fat and red," and Novelist Kennedy felt like a ghost. The Kennedys' maid from Downalong asked what Londoners thought about the war. " 'They're rather gloomy,' I told her. 'Gloomy? Why? They don't think that Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer...
Featuring Abbott and Costello, who are to a funnybone as a detonator is to dynamite, "Hold That Ghost" is easily one of the top ticklers of the year. A thousand good gags--they've all stood the test of time--have been thoroughly rehashed and served up with a haunted house and the gaunt Andrews Sisters. This is unadulterated slapstick with Jello Costello as usual getting the slaps. If you've followed the 1941 Laurel and Hardy in their rampage through our armed forces, come back for more of the same comedy--if not, then come to form the Abbott...
Meadville was still boom, not ghost town. Farmers backed their trucks into the market square, did a brisk business in tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
Washington was sympathetic. To make Meadville a ghost town for lack of 6,300 tons of copper seemed like junking an automobile for lack of a spark plug. That is sometimes necessary on the battlefield. Between armaments and slide fasteners, Washington could make only one choice. This week it was busy with inventory surveys, subcontracting plans, conservation drives (see p. 75), but it was not giving any priorities to Talon...