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Radio's Fred Allen is the subject in the current issue. When Author Maurice Zolotow writes: "The bags under his eyes come to look like fugitives from a hammock factory," the sentence is pencil-ringed and Funnyman Allen retorts in the margin: "Come now. My bags aren't that big. My eyes just look as though they are peeping over two dirty ping-pong balls." When Zolotow reports: "Allen got his first break when he played the lead in Polly, a 1928 musical," Allen corrects him testily: "In 1921 I toured with Nora Bayes and Lew Fields...
...Postwar demand for goods is likely for a year or more to test the productive capacity of U.S. industry. With 57 million people working 7.5% fewer hours, the out put of goods would fall short by a small margin of meeting the probable demand." So prophesied Harvard's ruddy econo mist Sumner H. Slichter in Chicago last week, before some 200 regional chairmen of the Committee for Economic Development. To support his thesis Slichter fired a series of cold facts...
...team which will take the field against the Bruins Saturday appears to combine good defensive play with comparatively weak hitting. Having lost the three best hitters of a squad which batted only .246 all term, the Stahlmen will once again have to depend for the margin of victory largely on the good right arm of Jack Wallace, who last term pitched two four-hitters and one five-hitter...
When the counting ended, the Taoiseach (Gaelic for Prime Minister; pronounced tee shock) and his Fianna Fail had a clear margin of 14 seats in the Dail instead of a deficit of four. Even if all other parties voted solidly against him, De Valera could win on any foreseeable issue. Now he had what he had demanded: power to match his responsibility...
...Crimson netmen were defeated last month at Worcester by the narrow margin of four to three when number two man Goae Sands defaulted because he was not able to get to Worcester in time for the match...