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...always start with about eight cups of tea first thing in the morning," a cockney said last week in London. "Then there's the tea break, then lunch, then tea, then supper. Pot's on the go the whole time." For the country where the pot is on the go despite rationing (varying between 2 and 3 oz. a person a week), the Tories had good news. After twelve years, the government stopped rationing of tea. In future, only the price (averaging 65? a Ib.) will prevent tea addicts from buying as much as they want...
...Warrior King of France, born 1553, assassinated 1610, and still remembered affectionately for his comment: "I should like to see a chicken in the pot of every Frenchman on Sundays...
Last week, the Grand Slam gave Northrop's President John K. (Jack) Northrop a big pot in what had long looked like a losing game. To Northrop Aircraft, which had more than once lost heavily on postwar wrong guesses, the Air Force was readying $154 million in contracts for the new plane, which would bring Northrop's total backlog to $389 million...
...fact was, said Billy, that "it was only after the case got into the newspapers and [Eleanor] filed 150 pages of affidavits charging me with everything from smuggling Chinamen to raising marijuana on my window sill that I decided to take a look at the pretty pot that was calling the kettle black ... I refuse to get bitter about [Eleanor], and I never suspected any extracurricular activity on the part of my wife. But her behavior was enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since...
Fast-growing television, with a take of $388.4 million, turned in the biggest percentage gain (93.3%). TV's share of the U.S. advertising pot nearly doubled, from 3.5% to 6%. The share of newspapers (34.7%), radio (10.9%) and magazines (8.9%) shrank slightly, though dollar volume rose. The dollar leaders: newspapers, $2.2 billion, up 8.8%; direct mail, $923.7 million, up 15%; radio, $712.3 million, up 6.7%; magazines, $573.7 million...