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...above the war. The Vatican maintained ties with Germany, Italy and Japan. But its relations with the Nazi Reich had never been worse than they were this week. Its relations with the United Nations seemed never better. In the muffled, intense activity of Vatican diplomacy, Francis Spellman, the grocer's son who may wear the red hat, seemed to have a key role...
Many a U.S. grocer and butcher, hog-tied by rationing red tape, sadly watched last week while good meat, butter and other foods spoiled in his store. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers sent a sense-making proposal...
...King strode into the Safe way Store, ordered dried beans, evaporated milk, sugar, coffee, Karo syrup. The grocer asked for his ration book. "A ration book, hey?" The suspicious hermit reddened with anger. "I have money to pay for what I need. You have to sell it to me." Not so, retorted the grocer: the King must register. "I'll sign for nothing," shouted the King. "All the book I need is in my gun belt." He drew the pistol, tossed some bills on the counter, scooped up his supplies, backed...
...concertos got to Toronto, nobody knows. Nine years ago a Toronto violinist and collector named Adolph Koldofsky was approached in a Toronto music store by a little Englishman named Barnes who was trying to sell a batch of old musical manuscripts. Barnes, a paper hanger, house painter and grocer who dabbled in collecting, said he had found his manuscripts about 20 years before in a little bookstore at Richmond and York Streets. The shop had since been torn down. Its owner, one Rosenthal, had died...
Joel's I.Q. is so high that the Chicago Board of Education keeps it secret. His mother first noticed something wrong when she heard him lulling himself to sleep reciting the multiplication tables. He was four. When he was four and a half, he caught the grocer short-changing his mother. That amazed her so that she wrote a child psychologist for guidance. The advice was to leave the boy alone. His parents say they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program...