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...nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard...
Farm prices have stolen a backward march on Leon Henderson, have declined without waiting for a ceiling to be clamped on them. Wheat last week was down 15? a bushel from the 1942 high; corn, 5?; rye, 28/5 soybeans, 27?; cotton, 2?: a pound; eggs, 4? a dozen...
Actually the decline in major farm prices is just as much a result of Government action as the freeze in the cost of living. Wheat, corn, rye and cotton were all phony prices in the early part of the year, were supported by political loans at 85% of a zooming "parity" and the hope of bigger loans to come. When the Administration froze parity (by freezing other prices), and spread the word that it would not boost loans still higher, speculators ducked out of those commodities in which the Government is holding huge surpluses off the market...
Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...team is filled with sissies wot won't guzzle rye...