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to eRINGLA be a Shee polish, it's made here in on § Eig at B fast it can be lq I know “llott Morrill, technical director, and Ray ssell, personnel Manager, are the two gentlemen resposible for the indoctrination program, Shinola is a division The Best Foods, Inc. 1437 W, Mor- = ris St. Shoe polish and food Is a strange combination, but in this age of strange bedfellows, one is reluctant to act surprised. Shinola is a division of the larger company, you're . told, and you let it go at that. \ You would think, and that's

would be fairly simple to understand. It's the stuff that makes shoes shine. It comes in a dan.” It makes your fingers dirty,

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MR. RUSSELL, with his black shoes sparkling 80 much they hurt my eyes, said the man to see was Elliott Morrill. The technical director, with brown shoes sparkling so much they hurt my eyes, sald right off if IT had 10 years to hang around he could tell me all about the product. I didn’t have 10 years to spare that afternoon. Shoe polish, to this user, couldn't be that interesting. Mr. Morrill noticed the dull look. He quickly explained he wanted "to impress upon me what a thorough study in$olved. “Can we have a brush and a promise?” ' The tour began. We.visited research laboratories where men in white coats fiddle endlessly with samples, Mr. Morrill said that before a formula gets into the plant, often it is kicked around from two to four years in the laboratory..

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WE WALKED into a room where samples of every batch that comes out of the plant are kept. They want to know or try to predict what will

. happen to the polish after it has been on a shelf

for a year or two. There were samples in the room that were sent in from remote towns. that were 10 and 15 Years old. The white coat men enjoy getting their hands on such polish. This is the age of probing, experimenting, asking and answering. Mr. Morrill mentioned three types of polish; liquid, paste and white. He produced a container

It Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Sometimes this former Sunday School teacher gets to brooding about the declining morals of American youth.

Enmside Indianapolis - By Ed Sovola apy lis Te

pened Last Night

He remembers that when he was in high school, .

back in his pimply past, he never knew about marijuana, or orgies, or hot rods. Maybe he was just dumb. . , “Before long.” he says, really shocked, “we'll be completely amoral. Who's to blame for this? The movies?” : : So I Kefauvered two famous film producers— Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, who are just out with a newie called “The Blue Veil.” They loudly denied the charge. - These celebrated hirelings of Howard Hughes have tried to get Mae West and Jane Russell into one movie. They aren't solely intellectual. “We think the moral letdown is a post-war thing.” proclaimed Mr. Wald. “We admit we use sex’ in pictures. When it's handled with good taste and fun, it's fine. : “To say Hollywood contributes to moral delinquency is crazy. We're policed too much. “Magazines have pictures and stories you can’t get on the screen. The primmest thing around is motion pictures . . .” “$ > oS

MR. KRASNA spoke up, “In fact, we think we have a squawk. “Why, movies are cleaner than ever. We can't do the Jean Harlow things like they did 15 years Apparently I was getting nowhere. Thev said movie stars should remain — to the public — glamorous. “If I see one more movie star posing in the kitchen with the dishes, I'll be sick.” boomed Mr. Wald. “Five-thousand-dollar-a-week stars that cook are idiots. I want to see girls in milk baths and orange juice baths, So does the public.” > € 9

THEY SEE in Miss Marilyn Monroe, a comparative newcomer, the new Jean Harlow. “She always leans back,” one said. “She always looks like the wind's. blowing at her back and she's bracing herself against it." But they are going to be sure she's a restrained, controlled, uncriticizable Harlow in their one picture with her. “There's a right way.” Mr. Wald said. “I remember at the. Academy Award party all the young girls came slinking in. in low dresses. “The one with a dress up to her chin, and a slit skirt, who stole the show, was Marlene Dietrich. I asked her about it and she said, ‘It's all in the attitude.” We'll tell you who's responsible for declining morals very soon. Just as soon as we find out.

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark NEW YORK, Nov. 2—T1 sure do hope they iron the wrinkles, amicably, out of this business of

lowering the cost of air fravel to Europe. so nobody's mad at nobody else, Because this is the®

"first time in the post-wat that anybody has made

a pass at lowering any prices on anything appreciatively. - * Here's how she lays: PanAm wants to instigate a nonluxurious, Wurist-class air service to Europe. It would be’ a service minus frills, no champagne, but it gets you there, and for $405 round trip as op-.. posed to the Fiurrent $711. TWA, Pan-Am's competitor, wants a cheaper service, too, but not so cheap as Pan-Am

pegs it, TWA is playing grandma in the current hearings, largely to enforce a happy household amongst the United States airlines and their

foreigp competitors, of which there are nine. The furriners aren't high on the idea; they claim they can't produce enough speedy equipment to compete.,™ “> dd ’ ? THE TWA's say that the long-time idea of beautiful friendship between everybody is more important than paring the price to the bone, and that the international air transport agreement between all the nations must not be broken up, if the welfare of traveling nafions is to be continued. But come high water or Juan Trippe, the PanAm's’ say that they are going to cut the price or else, and as of April, if April can make it. g The whole argument is to be settled, finally, in a conference in Nice, Italy, on Nov. 27. We come out of that either friends or enemies with the foreign airlines—most of which operate under government subsidies to which we contribute in the cases where we lend American dollars to competing Hation3,

MY THOUGHT, along about here, is that {it -

the dollar-thirsty nations need bucks to bolster their economies. Clipping a tourist who can get there on the cheap.ds a nice neat way of lining the pocket. So * If you can put a trip to Yurrup into the reach of the middle-income man by lowering the cost of getting there, you have soundly contributed to a free-enterprise Marshall Plan, 314 the American taxpayer might possibly preserve a dime or so. gr eg that we have to get along ehumiike with the countries we fly to, and that

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THE TWO gentlemen were disappointed. We walked info the plant, They showed me five different waxes in bins. Two were imported from South America, one came from Mexico and two were native, The wax from south of the border looked like small chunks of coal. Through a window we looked at the tank farm where ‘solvents were kept to thin the wax. The solvents are pumped into the plant, weighed with the waxes according to a secret formula, and then the batch goes into huge vats where dyes are added for the different shades. Vegetable waxes are gathered from trees and are used for high-shine qualities in a polish. Mineral waxes, like paraffin, are .used to make the polish sphead easily, résist moisture and preserve the leather. The solvents in the wax have cleaning qualities.

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ode de = MR. MORRILL was sensitive and noncommittal about the proportions, He said a good polish man never tells hig recipe. That's where the public relations cease and I understood perfectly. , “Shoe polish 4s like a cake, You can know the ingredients but if you don’t get them in the right proportion, yoy're whipped,” laughed Mr. Morrill, (I decided. not to open a shoe polish factory.) The batches of solvents and waxes are sub jected to heat and agitation. By gravity the liquid flows to a lower floor where many marvels of the machine age take over. Containers, which are manufactured in the basement, move along a belt and are filled 56 at a time. The flat tins pass through a long refrigerator. Seven gross are cooling at a time as they pass through. «Lh a

A COVERING machine picks up the. can of

polish, picks up a cover from anather line, spins «

each at an incredible rate of speed and never misses a lick when the cover is slapped on. The cans move rapidly on a belt to be packed by harid. Before a slowpoke could walk down three flights of stairs, the polish, which wads liquid a few minutes before, is practically ready for shipping. 0 | There's more Shinola than shines in your eye.

Too bad an outsider can’t get into it with both

shoes.

Movies Are Cleaner: Than Ever, They Say

THE MIDNIGHT EARL , . . Lana Turner's giving Milton Bérle her first N. Y| date . . . Frankf & Ava visited the Embers. Frank's off to Las .Vegas to ge* his divorce. TV. makeup men say Gov. Dewey insists they paint a dimple in his chin. . .. Could that've been Mickey Cohen at a. midtown restaurant (initials LC)? ... State Crime Commission's now probing the waterfront racket. tule a GOOD RUMOR MAN: Brenda Frazier and estranged husband Shipwreck Kelly are acting reconciley. . . . The Friars burn the mortgage on their new clubhouse soon, at a luncheon for their dean, Harry Delf. . . . Eileen : Burton's got a hot new record, “Cry.” . . . Harriet Annenberg and Paul Ames, rumored “remarrying,” actually rewed last week. >» Go B'WAY BULLETINS: Murv¥yn Vye—a big hit along with Dane Clark and Martha Scott in “The Number'—is even a bigger hit with lovely Robin Mortimer, maybe. his next. . . . Benny Goodman had a nose op-

eration. ... . A decorator faces a gal-beating rap. . . Judy 2 Garland, relaxing at Toots Martha Scott

Shor's with Sid Luft, figured she'll stay at the Palace till after New Year's. She's coining more'n $12,000 a week. ode EARL’'S PEARLS , . . Xavier Cugat mentions a congressman who held up a ship launching two hours. He wouldn't let go of the bottle.

ALL OVER: The Aga Khan's going to Johns Hopkins next month '(to have some money removed?). , . . TV detworks threaten to leave NYC unless the fire department modifies an old rule banning any stage apparatus in front of the proscenium. . . . On the Edge of the Ledge: Razor heir Jack Coleman and Virginia Bailey, Mitzie Gaynor and actor Dick Coyle, M. Berle's manager Irving Gray and Berle's secretary Sandy Lewis. T Os @

TODAY'S BEST KID STORY: “Daddy, are vou religious?” asked Coleman Jacoby's daughter. . . . ‘Sure. Thén why do you work on Halloween?” : ¢ & 2 ’

THAT DETROIT BIGAMIST, says Freddy Martin, is another man who loved not wisely, but two well. . , . That's Earl, brother.

Give Ordinary Guy A Chance to Travel

the co-operation on tickets, freight, customs and schedules as run by our competitors is also very important. Important enough not to be wrecked by violent dissension amongst the various lines. S dB TRAVEL ABROAD, is very nice now, with everybody being pretty’ sweet to everybody, and this co-operation can be laid almost squarely at the feet of the International Air Transport agree-* ment, which is a sort of United Nations of air travel. But the time has come to take long-distance flying out of the luxury category, and to put it well within the reach of the man who never had a hope of seeing the far places before. The oceanshipping people have been doing it for years, and with little inroads on their luxury trade. The man who can afford first class is a cinch to continue riding high on the hog. I believe the Bible tells us that in the old camel caravans, there was a walking fare for those who couldn't afford to ride the camels. But there was never any dearth of candidates for a seat on the camels. : * > » LARGELY as a result of the war, we conquered the problems of air transport in the technical details, We have whipped, in terms of speed, even the barrier of sound. The overseas airline is here, and we gotta face {t that we don't need 90 days to girdle the world any more. Economically we might as well look at the fact, then, that the ordinary Joe /is entitled to swift transpart at a cheap rate, and that Europe, Asia and Africa are just over the hill. Which is why I hope they work this business out in terms of what's right for everybody. We can do it cheaply, ladle dollars into foreign lands, and still part friends with all hands if Mobody gets too wrought up,

Dishing the Dirt

. By Marguerite Smith

Q—I raised sunflowers last year and tried to save the seed for the birds but it all rotted. How can I keep it this year? 8. Pénnsylvania. A—Cut the seed filled heads before frost, Let .

them dry, preferably in the sun, until-you can Shell the seeds easily. Be sure not to leave them out where they might freeze at night during this

drying period. Then if you haven't space to store the heads, you can shell the seed, spread it out for further drying before you store in tins. Evi: dently your seed last year either froze or did not get dry enough before you stored it, }

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1951

Cracks in the Kremlin Wall—

Stalin May Trip In His Own Snare

CHAPTER ELEVEN By EDWARD CRANKSHAW HOW MUCH can the Russian people stand without breaking down?

It is all too easy to think

of the Russians in terms of ourselves. The stories of the refugees from the Soviet Union encourage us in this, It should be clear by now that the Russian unthinkingly accepts deprivations of liberty

- which we will not accept, -and

that he can live and flourish in conditions of hardship unthinkable to us, ’ It is also true that after so many years of life at its harshest, he will accept worse evils than he was ready to acept in 1917. When we are thinking of the appalling conditions of the labor camps, for example, we should remember the appalling conditions of the average Russian village. It is calculated that each village is burned down by fire every five to seven years. The burning is the spring cleaning. The stench and the dirt and the heat in innumerable Russian horges, hermetically * sealed against the killing winter cold, is such that English or Americans could not endure it for 10*minutes without turning sick. a2 8 8 SOMETIMES, in winter, it becomes too. much even for the Russian peasant, who then opens doors and windows and moves into a neighbour's house for two or three days until the frost has killed the vermin. Or, if he can find no one to take him in, he with his wife, will simply go out into the forest and stay there for two or three days and nights on end, until the cold has done its sterilizing work. :

NOTE: Mr. Crankshaw is a . British historian and editor who has studied Soviet Russia for many years. 3 This is the eleventh of: a series of twelve articles from his book, “Cracks In the Kremlin Wall,” just published by Viking Press. :

This is the background, either immediate or a generation back, of the Russian prisoners in the labor camps, which kill Poles and Balts and Germans more easily than they kill Russians. In a word, the. proletarian revolution in Russia, Lenin's revolution, has had one undeniable achievement: the creation of a proletariat where none existed before, and the } most miserable proletariat in the history of the world.

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THE DEGRADATION is very real, and it is also the Kremlin’s most valuable protection. ~ Many times during the war I have seen men and women fall down in the snow, exhausted by starvation,.and left lying. . They were left lying by people who in their hearts are the kindest people in the world. They were left lying because nobody had energy to spare to see if they were dead, and because even if they were not dead there was nowhere to take them and no food to give them. I also remember an event which happened two years after the war, when Russia was recovering. Then, on a rhain road quite close to Moscow, an army lorry skidded in the snow. If ran into a group of women and children and crashed into a telegraph’ pole. The driver was dead in the cab, the windscreen shattered and splashed with blood. Two

Wedding Anniversary? Whee— .

By JEANE JONES

| JM ANGRY.

You should be too. We're the victims of a CAMPAIGN.

With a 30th wedding anniversary gift to buy, I consulted a wedding anniversary list. Diamonds, it said. On a reporter's salary? I thumbed through the book. ‘Diamond jewelry for the 10th, it said, and diamonds for the 60th (why not uranium?). For“the first anniversary, the booklet suggested clocks. This didn't seem right. A quick check with the World Almanac. solved thé mystery of the inflated anniversary gift. The booklet I was using contained the list adopted by the Jewelry Industry Council “in co-operation with the American National Retail Jewelers Association, the National Association of Credit Jewelers and the National. Wholesale Jewelers Association.’ It's been “in 1948, Three years this has been

going on and I just discovered it. = = -

UICKLY I compared this new list with the “traditional list recom-

effect” since

mended by social authorities” in the World Almanac. Paper for the first, the old fashioned list suggested. Much cheaper than a clock. Instead of china, the jewelers’ booklet listed, social authorities said cotton was accept: able. For the third. the cost would have been about the same. The jewelers listed crystal and glass, and. social authorities said leather. : But compare the fourth, elec-

High Pressure Football—No. 5—

They're Fenced Out

By HARRY GRAYSON Times Special Writer

K NOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 2—A four-foot wire fence surrounds the gridiron of Shields-Watkins Field, the home battlepit of the University of Tennessee. “That's to keep these football-happy people down here

off the field,” explains Gus Manning’ the young tubthumper.

The top strand is barbed. “That's to keep them from climbing over it," says Man-

ning. “Without it, they'd be on the field to carry the ballcarrier off before he completed his run. We'd have more 12thman incidents “than freshman players.” There are 60. freshmen this fall, the bulk of them handpicked. of course. Brig.-Gen. Robert Reese Neyland, the head

. football coach, annually has one

open practice on Labor Day. While only light work and a little blocking was scheduled on the holiday this year, more than 5000 spectators attended. It was with this’ tremendous enthusiasm that Neyland, in his 26th year here, built the great-

est of all college football em-

pires. » This fall's Tennessee team, undefeated and untied in five starts, is "top-ranked in both national press polls, United Press and Associated Press, as of this week. 8 FF 5 IT 1S SAID that’ Neyland spends more on scouting and

‘ friends, feed hi

wv recruiting than do fof their entire foethall program. He frankly tells you that Tennessee football oosts $250,000 a year, and it is run with military precision, land goes strictly first class, He has seven assistants and a trainer. When Tennessee has good reports on a boy and wants him, he gets a round trip air ticket. One hundred bright prospects visit the campus each spring. The Tennessee Volunteers are to college football what the New York Yankees are to major league baseball. Tennessee is more than a football factory. It is a football clearing house. No big league baseball club has a superior scouting and recrufting system.

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NO FEWER THAN 73 disciples of Neyland are coaching colleges, teachers colleges, high and preparatory schools and

professionals in 16 states, as far °

wast as’ Wyoming and Califor nia. All, plus alumni and with prospects, A Southeastern Conference

school is entitled to 140 athletia.

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children lay spread - eagled in the snow, quite dead. An old woman lay dying by the roadside. The remaining women, black scarved against the dead-white background, had no thought for the children. They threw themselves at the lorry, which was full of army rations, bearing great piles of food away. They were joined by a mob of women from neighboring cottages, who also took no notice of the dead and dying.

Afterward they would weep but now they had food. » » n

THAT KIND of degradation, and the degradation of the most generous and spontaneously kindhearted people in the world, is a protection against revolt. ‘But it does not make

trical appliances, with fruit and

flowers or silk. a difference. It's the same for the fifth, too. Silverware is on the jewelers’ list, while our old friend the Almanac suggests something wooden.

There's quite

i The jewelers say wooden for

the sixth while the other list suggested sugar and candy or iron. Woolen or cpoper was the traditional gift listing for the seventh anniversary. But the

scholarships, partitive and full, and you know that not many of them at Tennessee go in for, say, tennis. When Neyland called his company to attention this fall there were 72 varsity men and the 80 frosh. A football scholarship represents $1000 & year. + Business men of Knoxville contribute generously. Bigtime football is the only major “sports attraction in the indus- _ trial and agricultural center of east Tennessee. There are Vols and Touchdown Clubs in the state's larger cities, with members paying $10 a year each. = 2 : THE Tennessee Athletic Association does well with programs and concessions; the Vol Network broadcasts games into western North Carolina, southeh stern Kentucky, northern Georgia and western Arkansas as well as Tennessee, and occasionally farther north and to New Orleans and Miami, Fla. In eight games at home last autumn, Tennessee played to 199,243 paid admissions. In four road games, including the vic- . tory over Texas in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, the Vols played to 137,654, for a total of 336.897. That, at an average of $4 apiece, spells $1.347588, fine iness in any league. ennessee’s check for the Cofton Bowl game was $125. 000. The net was $42,000 after all expenses, including the band’s, :

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good citizens either in peace or war. In fact, it is the fear of war, depending upon the ignorance of the Russians, which is Stalin’s greatest asset. His fraudulent peace campaign cuts both

ways. It divides the outside world, as it’ is designed to do, but equally it strengthens Stalin’'s position at home. If ‘he can represent to mil-

lions who know no better, that he, backed by the oppressed and inarticulate millions of the West, can alone save them from another war, it is very much in his interest to paint the governments of the West, as hellbent on war. We have seen what happened when, in 1947, the Russians were encouraged to think there was an imminent danger of war; they simply gave up.

. jewelers had desk sets, or pen and pencil sets.

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linens, laces or leather listed by the jewelers, and bronze or pottery by the social authorities. It's the 10th that really got me. Tin or aluminum, said “the traditional list Diamond jewelry, said the jewelers. Not only that, but this an« niversary has gift suggestions for both wife and husband. One present isn't enough: Watches set with diamonds, rings, bracelets, necklaces, studs, scarf pins, tie clips. Hmmmm. For the 11th, can you afford fashion jewelry and accessories in silver, gold, gold-fill or gold plate? They're all sanctioned by the jewelers. Steel gets the nod on the old-fashioned Hst. The 12th is pearl or colored gems, according to the jewelers. The other list suggests silk or linen. Lace for the 13th, says the traditional list. Textiles or furs, say the jewelers. Gold jewelry is what the jewelers suggest for the 14th. The traditional list decrees ivory. $

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The new plan is much better, because the new plan is designed to make the Russian people feel that, although war is desired by Messrs. Truman, Churchill, and their friends, the masses are powerful enough to prevent it—the oppressed masses of the world, rallying round the Soviet Union, which must be kept together as a bastion of peace by the sacrificial

toil of the people of the Soviet

Unien, This is one aspect of Stalin's sixth asset, his unscruplous« ness. ; But the unscrupulous man is never free from the danger of being caught in his own snares. This has with Stalin in the past, and it will happen again. Next: War and Peace.

(Copyright, 1951, by Edward* Cranke shaw.)

' World Almanac Solves Gift Puzzle—

For the 15th, the jewelers would like you to buy watches. The traditional list settles for

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. THE jewelers give you suggestions for 16, 17, 18 and 19. The traditional list leaves you on your own until the 20th. Platinum is the jewelers’ suggestion for the 20th. The traditional list says china, For the 25th, both agree on silver, But jewelers want “ster ling.” Diamonds are on the jewel ers’ list again for the 30th. The traditional list says pearl The 35th anniversary gifts don’t agree either. The jewelers say jade, the traditional list, coral, : From there on the two lists agree on ruby for the 40th; sapphire for the 45th, gold for the 50th and diamonds for the 60th. There it is, you can take your choice. If I've been a little eritical of the jewelers list, I didn't mean to ke. x I like their gift suggestions

—when I'm on the receiving end.

At Tennessee

THERE ARE FANTASTIC stories about how remarkable runners Tennessee. There is the one about Jimmy Wade, a freshman tailback of Lynchburg, Va. North Carolina put the cele-

brated Choo-Choo Justice on -

him, but it was reported that voung Wade would get $8000 cash and an automobile to enroll at newly - football - happy University of Richmond. Yet

here he is at Tennessee. You figure it out. Tennessee's foreigners get afound. A total of 21 states

are represented on the varsity squad. Only 183 members are home-grown. . “A man of whom I had never heard wrote and said he hag some good boys who wanted to come to Tennesseé” says Neyland, without batting aneye. “I told him I would be happy to look at them, and I must say they are a splendid bunch. I'd be a sucker for not taking them.” . . - . or ONE CLOSE to the setup here says Herman Hickman, an AllAmerica guard at Tennessee, steered five players this way. Hickman was stymied, it seems, in getting them into Yale. As his former players now /coachsing send stickouts in his direction, Neyland returns the favors. “

“When I see a boy can’t quite

and blockers get to

make it here, and wants to play badly, IF recommend other schools,” he says. “I sent seven who played excellent ball to Wofford College, three to Coach Bowden Wyatt at Wyoming, others to Memphis State, and so on.” All those schools are coached by Tennessee men, of course. : When Neyland finds that he can't land an outstanding prospect, he'll do his best to see that he goes to a school not on Tennessee’s ‘schedule, = ” 4 NEYLAND SAYS they will never legislate scouting and recruiting out of major football. Any attempt to do that would mean under-the-table transactions, he believes. ? “And what's wrong with it?" he asks. “If the end justifies the means, 1 say fine, and it most certainly does.” Neyland reels off a long list of coaches, a number of them famous, and successful ‘men whom he coached at Tennessee. Football gave the majority of them a chance to attend college. ; “I take the utmost pride in having, with the aid of football, helped turn many L kids into men of stature,” he smiles. ¥

. He is an excellent spokesman

for, the high-pressure college football of the era,’ ca

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