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Never in my three-year subscription to your effervescent publication have I seen or read such a sparkling bit of satire as the one entitled "The Last Traffic Jam" [TIME...
Mize's bishop gave his blessing, but no salary; the county commissioners gave him a three-year lease on the poorhouse at $25 a month; the Kansas businessmen he buttonholed came across with $25,000. In September 1945, he opened St. Francis Home and brought in 22 tough kids, more than 75% of them with jail records...
...three-year term, Camillien Houde has no special plans. He knows his city and his city knows him. He fills about 1,900 official engagements a year, recently logged eleven in one night. Says Houde: "I am what TIME called me-a glorified handshaker, a hotel-greeter-no? I do not exactly get tired. I get-what you say? -stale. When I have to get up early, it seems the Devil himself contrives to keep me up late. But I can take it. I am tough like hell...
...Work. The Devil got around in New Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected...
Crisis Crimped? Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394. He hopes that the goal of 10,000 cars a month, scheduled for September, might be reached this month. Reversing a three-year trend, the U.S. in the last two months has built more cars than have been scrapped...