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A news candidate has an opportunity to bring in features on Harvard life, interviews with professors and often with stage and screen stars who are appearing in Boston. He covers straight news and gets a chance to write up various sports in which he is interested. Perhaps the most valuable...
Practically everything Americans want to know about the continent of which they know least can be found in this Baedeker to Down Under. Author Grattan ("America's foremost authority on Australia") covers the country's history, economy, politics, culture, its relations with Britain, its record in World Wars...
Coastal cities snapped up everything black that could be used for light-proofing: cloth, oilcloth, automobile-top covers. Stores pulled out old stocks that had been on the shelves since black petticoats and bloomers went out of style, sent orders for millions more to textile factories.
> Most liberal (written by Metropolitan Life and others) covers death not due to acts of war, even if it occurs while the insured is in the armed forces and outside the U.S. Beneficiary of a soldier who dies in an auto accident in Manila can collect.
No companies are anxious for soldier-&-sailor business (World War I battle mortality was 53 per 1,000 per year, normal is only 7 per 1,000). They discourage all such applicants, suggest they let the U.S. insure them. The U.S. will. During World War I, the Government wrote $40...