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...program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point up Grace Line's sales talk: the contrasting security of Western Hemisphere waters. Lest listeners forget, Announcer Larry Elliott takes over for about two minutes of each program to tell of the bright, balmy, beckoning Caribbean, plug Grace Line's bargain offer...
...lately the U. S. people planned things that way, their prospective "Army in Being" must fill huge holes in its supplies if it is to be ready to fight on call. As recently as 1938, Chief of Staff Malin Craig figured that $142,000,000 should be enough to plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week's estimates was allotted $100,266,413 more, was still...
...same since the general adoption of the huddle system 15 years or so ago. Not only has the game been slowed down from a pre-huddle average of about 150 plays to as few as 90, but nothing has ever replaced the exhilarating chatter of a bossy, spark-plug quarterback, barking "Sig-nuls!'' in the crisp autumn...
...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon a screen. The Shoescope is a great attraction in Chicago churches, in which "Shoe" shows...