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...Internal Revenue and asked a clerk to check the return. No, said the clerk, after much figuring, the tax is $60.47. The careful carpenter then went to the main office, where another clerk figured: $222.38. Carpenter Harl was so alarmed that the clerk tried again, found a much happier answer. Now, said the clerk, the Government owes you $30.16. Carpenter Harl moved on muttering...
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Professor McFarland stresses the "inescapable fact that we are becoming a nation of elders."* He concludes that the U.S. should make "far-reaching plans" to put its oldsters to work. Says he: "The social economy will be improved and the older person will be happier than if he is pensioned...
...have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician...
...Said a British officer: "All this would not be possible without Ike and Beedle." Stocky "Beedle" Smith used to train bird dogs and hunt quail with General Marshall in Virginia; in North Africa he keeps a cocker spaniel and a Virginia orderly, Sergeant Sam Carter, to remind him of happier times. He is the production manager of the Allied war machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle is at his desk hacking through red tape, making mile-a-minute decisions. No one appreciates Smith more than Eisenhower. Late one afternoon the General entered...