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...Harry's Arcade Spa, located under the wing of Mother Advocate, is the mecca of this latter group, the boys that "care." A knot of them, mostly from Adams House, gather after almost every lunch and dinner to practice their pinmanship. They look with disdain upon the more vulgar pin parlors on Mt. Auburn Street; places where no one seems to care...
...warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...
Lately there has been a very strong movement to ban corsages from the Spring dances. As yet, no definite agreement has been arrived at, though many feel that a determined policy against pin-ons should be agreed to before the dances begin, thus ensuring that no one will arrive with one, and ergo no one's feelings will be hurt. Moreover, they feel this is a good way to cut expenses, especially luxuries in time...
First he was called by the Senate's bustling Truman Committee, all set to pin the rubber shortage on somebody. Jones dodged the pin point. Backed up by five of his experts and lawyers, the Secretary of Commerce belligerently cocked his good right ear at the committee, stubbornly parried its jabs...