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Four years ago, we were told that the adoption of compulsory subscription would enable the News to be a better paper by helping it to financial security. The experience of the past four years has shown this to be untrue, so why not abandon the compulsory subscription and make the News a better paper by making it constantly seek the approval of its readers? Ruth Joseph...
Soon the military will abandon the No. 1 symbol of occupation, the big Dai Ichi insurance building across from the Imperial Palace, and move to the suburb of Ichigaya, renamed Pershing Heights. SCAP General Matthew Ridgway will have to move out of the U.S. Embassy to make room for new Ambassador Robert Murphy-but he will go to even more elaborate quarters, set aside by the Japanese government for the general, his pretty wife and three-year-old son. It is the baronial eight-acre estate of the late Marquis Toshitatsu Maeda, which boasts a baroque, three-story mansion...
Candidates for the 1952 Crimson varsity football team, over 100 strong, assembled at the Varsity Club last night to hear Coach Lloyd Jordan explain adjustments to be made for the coming season, in view of the Ivy Group decision to abandon spring practice...
...foreign policy, some Republicans want "to pull out of Korea, and to abandon Europe and to let the United Nations go to smash." Other Republicans want to begin dropping atomic bombs. The Democrats, on the other hand, are against Communism and in favor of peace...
...code of a half-forgotten 400-of that fortlike social world which existed in New York when sleek carriage horses still clopped along Fifth Avenue, when her "Uncle Ted" was President, and when World War I had yet to create the disconcerting erosions of the speakeasy age. When she abandoned that world she did not abandon its ways. Its aristocratic accents, its manners, its almost arrogant denial of ostentation, its odd blindnesses-even, it seemed, a lady's instinctive feeling that feminine candor would not be betrayed-all went with her to the union hall, the youth forum...