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...other half of the pattern which began to emerge from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought...
...also unfortunate that the scheduled appearance of Paul Anthony's sextet was called off at the last moment. Anthony is a local boy who has assembled a sweet-swing group much in the pattern of the Goodman sextet and should make a name for himself if he only gets the necessary break...
Auburn-haired Joan Berry, 24, who wandered from her native Detroit to New York to Hollywood in pursuit of a theatrical career, became a Chaplin protegee in the summer of 1941. She fitted into a familiar pattern. Chaplin signed her to a $75-a-week contract, began training her for a part in a projected picture. Two weeks after the contract was signed she became his mistress. Throughout the summer and autumn, Miss Berry testified last week, she visited the ardent actor five or six times a week. By midwinter her visits were down to "maybe three times a week...
...circumstances of the banning here fall into a pattern which needs vigilantly to be examined and exposed. The Watch and Ward Society lurks in the background, though the responsibility for the suppression has been taken by Richard Fuller, president of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants. Since Thomas Sullivan, the Police Commissioner, has explicitly stated. "I do not ban the book--I-have no right to do so," this would seem to put the action squarely upon the shoulders of Mr. Fuller. An earlier member of the Fuller family, Margaret Fuller, would not have acted with such timidty...
...photographed, every day from 1910 to 1937, certain calcium clouds on the sun's surface. Dr. Abbot compared measurements of fluctuation in the area of these clouds with his own measurements of solar heat and weather. To his great delight, all three showed almost exactly the same pattern of ups & downs...