Exit Smiling

At Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week, Price Boss Leon Henderson stepped into the arms of a welcoming committee from Local Ration Board 234.3, all set to rib him, themselves and their mutual works at a "Smileage Rationing" party.

First stop was Radio Station WCAO, for a broadcast with his hosts. A woman member asked point-blank about rumors that he was going to resign. Leon Henderson grinned. "Well, that's the way things go," he said. In walked a newsman, with word that the resignation had just been announced in Washington. "There you have it," said Henderson, grinning again.

Somebody asked him...

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