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...movement....The quality of the class work done by the Trade Union Fellows has been of a high order. Although the unions were urged to select prospective men of affairs rather than men of the scholar type, the men have shown excellent capacity to handle book material. Their industrial background has stood them in good stead in class discussions and they are showing up particularly well in courses which they are taking with students who lack a similar industrial background...
Even without becoming an officer, which seems to be the accepted course for Harvard men, one can meet, in this man's army, and deal with any kind of man without regard to his background, income, faith, or any but his truest and deepest character. Perhaps this experience may be the soundest on which to base our plans and hopes for a long peace
...your Aug. 14, 1939, issue, "Background for War," you outdrew Pearson, not by days, not by months, but by years...
Perhaps if some of those in Washington had followed your Background for War a little more carefully, some of our shortcomings might have been avoided...
Against Gypsy Rose (The G-String Murders) Lee a suit for $5,000 and half the G-Siring royalties was filed by Harper's Bazaar Associate Editor Dorothy Wheelock, who charged she collaborated with the ecdysiast on "a literary work with a burlesque-theater background," found a publisher for it, and was then ditched. Gypsy says the editor wrote "a sample book," but not G-String...