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...generation of jokesters grew up to keep legend and complex alive. Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...State declared war on denigrating Native Son Bob Burns, forced him to return to a Little Rock mass meeting and explain. He promised to present "a truly sympathetic character" in the movies, subsequently withdrew from Paramount's scheduled Wizard of Arkansas because it caricatured his native State. When Paramount sued, all Arkansas rose in Burns's defense...
Equipment of all kinds will be on demonstration and slides and movies of ce-climbing and rock climbing in New England will be shown. In addition there will be talks by the president and the officers of the club, as well as by Kenneth Henderson, member of the K-2 expedition to Tibet and president of the American Alpine Club...
Like the oldtime housewife who used to hitch the cradle to her rocking chair, letting the motion of the chair rock the baby, U.S. airplane motormakers last week were harnessing airplane engines to generators-thus just about licking the serious wartime shortage in electricity. One Midwest motor plant is generating several million kilowatt hours a month, more than half the power needed to run the plant at capacity...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...