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BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Vol. 47 Ms No. 5 THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE POSTMASTER: November, 1949 Please send cam... copies returned under labels Form CONTENTS 3579 to Post Office What City Has the Most Pretty Girls? . by harold helfer 11 Box 1055, Indian- They grow peaches in Georgia. Atlanta, that is apolis 6, Indiana. The Child Who Started a Lobby by bennett foster 14 The American Legion Mago- Many children will live because of Maude zine is the official publica- and the Legion tion of The American Legion and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copy- How to Go Treasure Hunting at Home, .by frank rasky 16 right 1949. Published month- ly at 1100 W. Broodwoy, You may have a small fortune somewhere on Louisville, Ky. Acceptonce your premises foi mailing ot special rote of postoge provided for in I Bill . Section 1103, Act of Oct. Saw the Gl Written (conclusion) .by dave camelon 18 3, 1917, outhorized Jon. 5, A wild ride from Georgia saved the 1925. Price, single copy, 15 day cents; yearly subscription, FEEL the difference in your scalp! What a $1.50. Entered as second Behind the Recipe Racket by bill miksch 20 wonderful wake-up glow — when you use class matter June 30, 1948. at the Post Office at Louis- Your wife may not like this, but you probably will Vitalis "Live- Action" care. That's Vitalis and ville, Ky., under the Act of the "60-Second Workout!" 50 seconds' mas- Morch 3, 1879. What You Can Do About.Membership 22 EXECUTIVE AND sage with active Vitalis (I) stimulates scalp Every Legionnaire ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES can be a Crusader (2) prevents dryness (3) routs flaky dandruff Indianapolis 6, Indiona (4) helps check excessive falling hair. Then What Does The Legion Do? 23 EDITORIAL AND 10 seconds to comb and you're all set! ADVERTISING The American Legion's most pressing problems One Park Avenue from (fiction) . .by New York 16, N. Y. A Man Kansas james charles lynch 24 • . ^iVes you WESTERN OFFICE The town needed a marshal and Conover was it 333 North Michigan Avenue Flags 26 Chicago 1, Illinois How Are Made James F. O'Neil, Man What goes on in the world's largest flag factory Chester, New Hampshire Handsomer Chairman of the Legion Publrcafions Commission, How You Can Help a Cripple by george waltz, jr. 28 Lawrence W. Hager, Owens Here is a Post project that is boro, Kentucky and Don W, worth while Emmett, Ventura, Colifor HAIR nia, Vice-Chairmen, Mem bers of the Commission Vilas H. V/holey, Racine The National Legionnaire. .29-36 Wis.; Tom W. M„cCaw^ Dennison, Ohio; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C Paul B. Dague, Downing FEATURES town, Po.; Josephus Daniels Jr., Raleigh, N. C; Georg« Previews 4 Newsletter 37 D. Levy, Sumter, S, C; Dr, Charles R, Logan, Keokuk Editors' Corner 6 Report from Hollywood. .44 lowo; Earl L. Meyer, Alii ance. Neb.; Charles E Booth, Huntington, W. Vo Sound Off! 8 Life in the Open 50 A. C. Jockson, Lubbock Texas; Mox Slepin, Phila Parting Shots 64 delphia, Po.; Roland Co crehom, Baton Rouge, La George D. Baron, Bethany Conn., Lang Armstrong S p o k o n e, Wo s h.; Ear Please notify the Circulation Department, Publications Division, P. O. Box difference in SEE the your hair! Now see Hitchcock, Glens Falls, N.Y. 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your address, using Edgar Vaughn, St. how much neater, handsomer your hair G. Paul notice form 22S which you v/ill secure from your Postmaster. Be sure to Minn.; Harold A. Shindler. cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro- set to I looks — stay that way all day! No Newburgh, nd.; Emmett vided. Always give your 1950 membership cord number and both your "patent-leather" shine. Vitalis contains no Safoy, Jacksonville, Fla. new and your old address. greasy liquid petrolatum just pure, natural Director of Publications — James F. Barton vegetable oil. For a scalp that its best feels Indianapolis, tnd. The dog is generally considered man's and hair that /<9oA:s its ht^i.gzV Live- Action" Ass t to Director best friend, but at moments such as Vitalis at any drug counter or at your barber Frank Lisiecki the one shown on our front cover, he shop. Editor can be dov/nright unpopular. Albert Joseph C. Keeley Staehle, this month's artist, has de- Advisory Editor lighted millions of magazine readers skin speciaj'^*^, Alexander Gardiner • Mony v/ith his amusing portrayals of dog Managing Editor life, and he tells us that the pup who Boyd B. Stutler posed for this month's cover was so Art Editor prevents dry in love with his job that he tore two scalp, Al Marshall lotes Legion cops to shreds before the Associate Editors ness. painting was finished. We doubt, Robert B. Pitkin Irving Herschbein however, that many dogs could get Advertising Director two opportunities like this in real life. Fred L. Moguire Eastern Advertising Manager Russell Holt VIWIS Product of PICTURE CREDITS: Gabriel Benzur, Danny Coshtlgian ot Boston Globe, 11-13; Western Advertising Bristol-Myers Globe Photos. Pix, B. W. Cooke. Spears, W. Porter Ware, Pennbrook Milk Co., Manager and the 1617; Press Assn., 18-19; George E. Pickoiv from Three Lions, Inc., 26-27; Fred E. Crawford, Jr. Tom Knowles, 28. 60-Second Workout' 2 • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 I 33 FINE BREWS BLENDED INTO ONE GREAT BEER C o p r. 1 949, Pa bst Br ewi ng C o.. Mi I wa u k««, WItco nti a O O Awione m teU he ks'l2±' Prkwiicwk ofRodiicts, Inventions, Ideas A savipling of products which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsement of them since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers. OIL PUNCH. A practical method of piercing holes in steel by means of oil has been devised by engineers of the General Electric Company. Ordinary methods of piercing sheet metal use a metal punch, but the new system substitutes a column of oil for the punch. In both cases the size and shape of the hole follow the form of a die used with the sheet being punched. In operation, the column of oil is struck hard at the top. Since it is confined in all directions and cannot be compressed, the oil is forced to punch through the sheet steel which forms the bottom of the column and into the hollow area of the die under the sheet. - . FOR A KID'S CHRISTMAS. The Big Bad Wolf, Snow White and other story-book characters are brought to life ia novel fashion by means of Sound Story Action Sets being offered by the Baker Co., 737 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11. The Sound Stories consist of 7-inch double-faced phonograph records plus a set of cut-out characters and backgrounds- which permit the child to enact the scenes described by the recordings. Made of Vinylite, the records are unbreak- able. Now ax^ailable are the stories of the Three Little Pigs, The Shoemaker and the Elves, The Three Bears, Snow White, Gingerbread Boy and Old MacDonald. A single Sound Story costs 50<-, or they can be purchased in sets of three for $1.25 or in sets of six for $2.35. ELECTRIC SCREW DRIVER. A device which fits into any electric drill and which converts it into an automatic screw driver is being introduced by the F. N. Bertram Tool Co., 3121 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. Called the Bull Driver, it automatically centers on the screw groove and it releases itself automatically when the screw is driven home. It comes in three models. One is a self-centering model for driving screws up to #14 size, another self centering model drives small screws, and a third model is a hand- centering type. The attachment sells for $4.95. • You can tell by the ladies' admiring GOT AN OUTBOARD MOTOR? The job of getting an outboard glances when a man has Pipe Appeal. 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