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...shoe-rationing order (TIME, Feb. 15). Despite Government assurances that rationing of other clothing was not in the cards, customers bought up retail clothing stocks as if they were the last they would ever see. The U.S. public had not yet learned that the best way to avoid rationing is to avoid overbuying in the first place...
...deficit and provide a backlog for 1943. The U.S. Treasury has been asked to rule that contributions are taxdeductible, "on the ground that the Nation is a nonprofit corporation for educational purposes." If contributions are insufficient, which is unlikely, Editor Kirchwey will retrench drastically, try any expedient to avoid the Nation's death...
Whatever the production, it will be staged in Brattle Hall and directed by Phyllis Stohl. To avoid repetition of the financial difficulties which the clubs encountered in "Mashenka," the next production must conform to a budget set up beforehand...
...further problem which has arisen is the question of WAVE officers attending social functions with enlisted men or enlisted women attending with male officers. The custom of the Service requires great circumspection in social relationships in order to avoid any compromising of their relative military positions. However, the commanding officer of the WAVES has ruled that officers and enlisted personnel of opposite sexes may attend social functions together so long as they conduct themselves in accordance with the general rules of conduct applicable to ladies and gentlemen in any social or nonmilitary situation...
...next victim. She tries to flee from him, but he reaches her, and in the most depressingly "phoney" scene of the film, tells her the truth; that he is innocent. The ending to the original story, that the hero actually is the murderer, is replaced (to avoid jarring the public's emotions) by a happy Hollywood finale, which mildly cripples an otherwise magnificent motion picture...