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Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...
Pretty, comical Lucille Ball, with her high pile of fiery hair, plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce...
...Browder ante): To pile up profits for the capitalists and red herrings for the discontented populace...
After the guns ceased firing, combat troops turned out to help the Ordnancemen sort and pile the spoils. Usable equipment was repaired and cleaned up in the Ordnance depots, which can fix anything from a field gun to a cookstove. But not all captured materiel was usable. Much of it was just plain junk...
...filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died all over. But his dream since boyhood was a big-league baseball club...