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Sheer Friendliness. Radio Writer-Producer Don (Fibber McGee & Molly) Quinn thinks that "this practice amounts to petty larceny. After all, for me to chisel a part of my sponsor's time to give a free plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly...
...confused with Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson, former president of General Electric, who resigned last March as Director of Defense Mobilization, after a row with Harry Truman, or with Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, onetime vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. Only common complaint of the Charles E. Wilsons: the mailman often mixed up their dividend checks...
Piper's latest subjects are conventional enough: fountains and flowers, church courtyards, an island hotel, a village pump, a lime kiln. What made the paintings unmistakably Pipers were the colors and compositions. There were great swatches of bright yellow and bone white against russet and black, planes of dark shadows with fiery pinwheels of yellow, white and red. And the scenes had an air of amiable ruin: old fonts and arches decked in new flowers. In no time most of the 31 pictures were sold or spoken...
After five days the storm abated; two days of calm and clear followed, and then came a new hurricane, wilder than the first. One breaker flooded the Miru's 17-year-old diesel engine, which operated the bilge pump. For two days, Arrow, Donovan, and Davis took turns in a bucket brigade, carting water from the cabin to the deck...
...Other surgeons have tried similar techniques on patients who had no chance of surviving without the operation, and little chance even if it was successfully completed. None has lived. Some have survived after part of their blood flow was shunted through a pump...