MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 7, 1948

¶ In preparation for the tourist season, Pueblo, Colo, was shopping around for Indians who would come to Pueblo, spend their time “colorfully wandering around the town concentrating on nothing but being Indians.”

¶ The Manville, R.I. textile mill—the town’s only industry—closed down. Said a worker: “You don’t feel right and you think ‘what’s wrong?’ And then it comes to you: the mill is quiet. We’ve been listening to that noise all our lives, even in our sleep. Makes a hum, kind of. It makes you feel funny to have it quiet.”

¶ Mrs. Tillie Siegel, 50, of Los Angeles, sued Grauman’s Chinese Theater for $5,000 damages. Mrs. Siegel claimed that she had stubbed her toe on Greer Garson’s footprint in the cement outside the theater, fallen and suffered bruises, scratches and “discomfort.”

¶ In a Shelby, N.C. movie theater, Veteran Arbuth Bumgarner, 26, who was bombed while a patient in a Normandy hospital, suddenly went berserk, stabbed his wife and then himself with his pocketknife. The movie “drove him nuts,” he explained. It showed the bombing of a Normandy hospital.

¶ In Sabetha, Kans., County Attorney James McClain, 31, launched his campaign for governor and repeal of the state’s dry law with a parade of farm trucks and equipment. (Sign on a manure spreader: “We’ll spread McClain over Kansas.”)

¶ According to the New York Times’s non-fiction bestseller list, U.S. readers, after briefly preferring Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind, decided they liked Peace of Mind better, after all.

¶ Newark’s Public Safety Director John B. Keenan vetoed the Hotel Sheraton’s plan to put its waitresses in transparent skirts (standard procedure in Sheraton hotels in 16 other cities). Said Keenan: “What other cities do has no bearing on what we do in Newark.”

¶Daniel Rupert Pitsenbarger, 89, of East Rainelle, W. Va., died leaving 182 direct descendants—five sons, five daughters, 64 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren.