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...about the newest pill: Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew on bars, nightclubs, theaters, and other places of entertainment. In most U.S. cities bars close by 1 a.m. and most U.S. citizens go to bed betimes, anyhow. Even on those it most directly affected-nightclub owners, entertainers and swing-shift workers-the curfew would work no insurmountable hardships. But many a U.S. citizen asked suspiciously which home-front ailment the curfew was designed to cure...
...Texas Too. In San Antonio, Texans asked if the curfew applied in Texas too, and many added: "If it does, we'll just have to start getting drunk an hour sooner next Saturday." The only ordinary citizens who would really be inconvenienced were swing-shift workers. Many of them thought their lives were uncomfortable enough anyhow; there is something chronically annoying about working from 4 in the afternoon until midnight...
Swing-shifters go after recreation in the small hours of the night, and in war-boom cities, dancehalls, bowling alleys, cinemas and skating rinks have swing-shift hour periods. Last week a Los Angeles aircraft local of the United Automobile Workers protested to Byrnes: "We seriously feel this order will retard production . . . rather than speed...
...Will Shift to Newell...
...Voluntary rowing on the machines is continuing at Weld Boat Club during exam period," reports coach Bert Haines, "and a formal meeting of all crewmen will be called immediately after the coming vacation. Practice will shift into the tanks at Newell Boat House at that point and will continue until the ice is out of the Charles...