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Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation made it plain how much worse they might get. It ordered U.S. railroads to pool all their passenger and baggage cars, so that they will be on tap to meet Army demands. This was partly scare talk, to keep civilians off trains. But it was also a plain warning that, from now on, civilians will travel only at the pleasure of the Army...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson...
Having Wonderful Time. A typical G.I. evening on the Riviera runs as follows: dinner at 7, movie at 8, then to the Angleterre's Air Forces nightclub, where G.I.s jitterbug, watch a floor show which includes jugglers, acrobats, tap dancers...
...drop in any time. Washington promptly hummed that Jack Garner might get a Cabinet job. But no such offer was made. Old Cactus Jack, 76, is so busy watering his pecan trees, feeding chickens, "striking a blow for liberty" (with bourbon and a little "branch water" from the tap), and resting, that not even an offer of the Secretary of Stateship could lure him back to Washington...