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...chiselers are not scared. They remember that even during the war, fines were low and jail terms unusual. Despite the loud war whoops from OPS last month, its big enforcement campaign has been disappointing. There are too many artful dodges. In front of an OPS inspector recently, a Chicago butcher demonstrated one by cutting up two identical carcasses. Cuts from one complied with OPS regulations; cuts from the other did not, and even the OPS man could not tell how the cheating had been done...
...father, an army general, first sent him to a military academy, then to law school, but gave up trying when the youth ran off with an Italian dancer. While learning to paint, Di worked as a railroad-tie inspector, newspaperman, dress designer and actor. He spent ten years in Europe, studying and largely rejecting its modern painting styles...
...Army was complaining about faulty steel, and Fairless was told to settle the trouble. Fairless, demonstrating his ability to find common-sense solutions to problems, broke a paper clip in half, handed half to the Army inspector and suggested: "If any steel has pits big enough for us to poke this clip in, let's agree it's faulty." The officer, delighted with the idea's simplicity, agreed; most of the steel passed the test. Griffiths, who later became president of Central Steel was delighted too: he boosted this promising youngster to superintendent, then general manager...
...Chief Inspector Charles Duggan of the Lynn police force also disclosed yesterday that only one of Mrs. Bridges' shoes has been found. It was in her car, which was parked some distance from where police decided she entered the water...
...other man was Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...