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When one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch Nazi painter, owned to forging seven recently "discovered" Vermeers (TIME, July 30), art experts laughed him off as a nut. They had reason to: the masterpieces had been painstakingly authenticated by them, by chemical, X-ray and infra-red tests...
...have had all I can take 'for a while. . . . I've been immersed in it too long. . . . My mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut...
Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America, which paid more than $10 million in 1943 excess-profits taxes, is one of the nation's lustiest, most publicized war babies. In eye-stopping two-color ads, the company has dramatized its principal product, a patented, self-locking nut, has regularly claimed "more Elastic Stop Nuts on America's war equipment than all other lock nuts combined." But last week the company was struggling to put a stop lock on its troubles...
...Wrigley's chewing gum except "Orbit" (made from grade-B chicle), and 75% of Beech-Nut production is going to the armed forces...
...Current Crop. All but drowned in the postwar hubbub was the West Coast's brand-new American Football League, which was finding college box-office competition a hard nut to crack. Last week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los Angeles Wildcats in a league tussle, whereas 60,000 fans had braved 105° temperatures the day before to watch the University of Southern California play U.C.L.A. This month, further complicating the customer quest, the four-year-old Pacific Coast Football League swings into action...