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...Leather Strap. In Rome, Ga., a federal jury had listened for ten days to the story of what happened one night almost a year ago in the little (pop. 200) mountain town of Hooker, just across from the Tennessee line. There was not much argument over the facts. A hooded mob of Ku Kluxers planted a flaming cross in the front yard of Mrs. Mamie Clay, broke up a neighborhood party and then hauled seven Negroes off to a nearby schoolyard. There, one by one, they were ordered to strip off their trousers, were thrown to the ground and lashed...
During a flight of eloquence in the House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...
...enemies. Together they constituted the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There was lanky, homely Chairman Omar Bradley, the map of Missouri on his face and the map of Europe behind him on the wall; the Air Force's handsome, greying General Hoyt Vandenberg, lounging long-legged in his leather chajr; the Army's peppery, prow-chinned General Joe Collins, who likes to do a lot of the talking. At Bradley's left sat a pink-faced man with thin hair who wears his four-star admiral's uniform with the careful air of a Sunday-best suit...
Last week a bright-eyed old man sat on a worn leather bench in London's Athenaeum Club and echoed this admonition from Greek Scholar Adolphus Cusins in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...
...with an A.B. from Vanderbilt, Ed Rand went to work in his father's factory sorting leather; two years later he became a leather buyer. After a wartime hitch with OPA, WPB and SPAB, where he had charge of selling millions of surplus Army shoes, Rand went back to International as boss of production, merchandising and distribution, was made a vice president in 1947. The company he went back to had mushroomed from one plant in 1898 to 55 factories, eight tanneries, a rubber plant and a cotton mill, with 35,000 employees and 12,000 stockholders. International Shoe...