Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Cartoonish snippets recount a Sussex landowner vowing ten thousand pounds per daughter while an Irishman offers to buy two of them and Bernard Shaw quips about aging. The piece includes a 1948 copyright note and King Features Syndicate distribution.
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Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf and Reynolds critique Montgomery's Near East campaign as it upends long held customs. The piece satirically notes Arab women win emancipation post 1942 with women leading, while men face danger from unexploded mines and the family anecdotes reflect a fading traditional order.
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Plane Makers Face Reconversion Pains In Wartime Shift
A secret survey shows aircraft makers struggle to reconvert to 24 hour notice war production. Materials labor and skilled engineers are tight as peacetime subcontractors resist returning. Complex modern aircraft compound the shift from wartime to emergency production.
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