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Mary Churchill would be of the jukebox generation, but she is British; she would be serious about small things, but she has watched too many big minds grapple with too many big problems. She has grown up to be intelligent without thick lenses, mature without even half trying. She seldom goes to London's gaunt nightclubs, does not smoke, but loves to dance. Her newest, proudest possession: a pair of gold earrings cut like wheat tops and curled along the edge of her ears from top to bottom. She bought them herself...
...time with his mother "including the afternoons and evenings she spent in the back room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about drinking after two months in an institution...
...eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule. The Duke saw pleasant surroundings: red frame houses, a neat canvas mess tent, a medical clinic, shower baths, even a jukebox. ("What's that?" demanded Windsor, "a stove...
...Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts to a batch of war contract hungry New York State furniture makers...
...Pattern and Foundry Co., found guilty of using its priority rating to buy illegally 6,075 Ib. of aluminum scrap from Milwaukee Scrap Metal Co., 19,530 Ib. from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...