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...Mail Must Go Through. In Miami, police jailed Postman Joseph Gagen even after he explained that he was delivering his mail in his bare skin because he had fallen off his bicycle into an anthill and had to abandon his clothes in order to abandon the ants...
...born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1908. He came to the U.S. as a child, later studied psychology in New York University. He was preparing his doctor's thesis at Yale, on a teaching fellowship, when he decided to marry one of his former pupils and to abandon psychology for painting. Yale objected to both decisions. Result: Mr. and Mrs. 'Haucke rented a cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part in it. So he got a job with Bethlehem Shipbuilding...
...undergraduates. Yet only one House has seen fit to give the Yardlings representation on its Committee. Greater efforts must be made to organize teams, record dances and tournaments within the House; notices of such events must be posted in the Freshman dormitories. Upperclassmen and June Freshmen alike must abandon their traditional reserve to attempt to help Freshmen get acquainted in their House. This is no longer a case where the Freshmen themselves are apathetic, as in last summer's experiments with class unity. The Yardlings have shown, by giving the Student Fund more support than any other group...
...Never the Twain. . . ? These two offensives showed that the spirit was far from spent on Guadalcanal. The Japs had planned a pincer; they would probably not abandon their plan easily, and early this week they made new landings to try to carry it out. But, far from crunching in on Henderson Field, they had seen the U.S. beachhead expand its width within the jaws of their pincer from eight miles to 16 miles...
...question now was whether retailers would have enough stocks left by Nov. 29 to supply holders of ration tickets. To many a grocer, it looked as if WPB would have to abandon its 65% roasting ceiling for a while-something that WPB has thus far flatly refused to do. Certainly something must give: if the start of rationing finds many citizens unable to use their ration tickets, the coffee comedy will cease to be funny. Such a failure might endanger the whole principle of rationing-which the people have accepted wholeheartedly thus...