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...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...Doctors and dentists with 80 points, or who are 48 years old, or who joined up before Pearl Harbor, can get out immediately unless they are in certain specialties (eye, ear, nose & throat work, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry, etc.). These specialists (except those who enlisted before 1941) will have to stay in until the Army lets them go. All other doctors who have enough points can be kept in after December 15 only with their consent...
Pink-faced, burly Burl has been on location for eight weeks at Kanab, Utah. In a rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...
...their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...
Died. Robert Hutchings Goddard, 62, wartime chief of Navy research on jet-propelled planes and first man to fire a liquid-fueled rocket (in 1926), a principle which the Germans adapted for their ¥2; after a throat operation; in Baltimore. Rocketeer Goddard once set a peacetime ambition for his invention:"I believe that a rocket . . . will some day successfully reach one of the planets...