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Then Congressman Vorys went home to his tasks as a board member of Columbus' Broad Street Methodist Church, to a stack of letters from businessmen's organizations asking for more information on foreign policy and for speeches about his proposals. He summed them up in a letter to a friend: "We need more Methodists and more businessmen in our foreign affairs, pumping more idealism and common sense into our plans...
...London, awaiting the first wartime meeting of Dominion Prime Ministers with almost as much interest as the invasion, there was much speculation as to how "Honest Jack" would stack against the plain & fancy pressures he would find in Britain. Well did the men of politics recall the strange coincidence that Australian First Ministers who visit London while in office usually soon find themselves out of a job. Australians, they knew, liked their politicians plain, were quick to toss a man bemused by pomp & circumstance...
Virginia-born Lady Astor sometimes enlivens London dinner parties with semi-serious tirades against American pin-up girls: "Bare legs! It's disgusting! Our Army ought to be ashamed of itself!"* Last week a batch of grubby British "art" magazines set her off in public. Armed with a stack of them, she rose in the House of Commons and touched off one of those exchanges which a British wit has called "Asterisks...
...league baseball had just about as many players in the armed services last week as it will have in play this season-400. The American League had 203 service stars, the National 197. There had been only one death. Rookie Eugene Stack, slated for a tryout with Chicago's White Sox, was the first major leaguer drafted-Jan. 7, 1941. Two years ago he died of a heart attack after pitching a game for Fort Custer, Mich...
...these demands stack up to more food than U.S. farmers can produce. They are short of labor, of machinery, of fertilizers. They are threatened with a breakdown of highway transportation. Most farm trucks are overage, tires are worn thin, replacements hard...