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This week, employers began withholding an additional 2% of salaries and wages. Because of the new excise taxes, cigarettes rose i? a pack, whisky cost 26? to 70? more a fifth. Taxes had gone up on mechanical pencils, cigarette lighters, gasoline, new cars, electric dishwashers, lawnmowers and skis. Already pinched by higher taxes and higher prices, the U.S. public has every reason to expect that worse is yet to come...
...Evita herself. From her sickbed at the presidential residence, she made a tearful radio appeal to women to vote for her husband. Once again she broke down, as she regretted that she could not join in the fight. It was officially announced from the palace, after Dr. George Pack, a New York cancer surgeon, flew to Buenos Aires for a day's consultation, that Evita's doctors would wait a further ten days to decide whether an operation was indicated...
...Detroit last week, New Orleans' famed Surgeon Alton Ochsner addressed a gathering of doctors on the recent increase in lung cancer, which he believes is directly traceable to increased smoking. Every pack-a-day smoker over 40 should have a chest X ray every six months, said Ochsner; every pack-a-day man over 50, every three months. Said nonsmoking Dr. Ochsner sadly: "A great many physicians are heavy smokers." Over his attentive doctor-audience, the air was blue with smoke...
...correspondent, moved to Washington in 1945. Now, as second in command of the Trib's 14-man bureau, he picks his own assignments, hotfoots it wherever he scents a beat (most of his sniffing the past year has been at RFC). He refuses to run with the press pack after stories or to mix business with pleasure at cocktail parties: "I can get more information by going up in a Senator's office and spending five minutes . . . than by spending four hours with him at a party the night before...
Diapers & Antibiotics. As for the children, "there is a current impression that the diaper service takes complete charge of children until they are toilet trained, and the television set takes over from there on in." Since she obviously has nothing to do, Groggle feels that his wife should pack the combined sex appeal "of Lana Turner, Merle Oberon, his mother in a tinted tintype at eighteen, the latest magazine cover girl, and Miss Rheingold...