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"When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers...
For instance, Astronomy 2a, plus some skill in trigonometry, will provide the key to a commission for men who pass the physical requirements of the Navy's V-7 program. Geography 10a, on the other hand, does not contain enough weather forecasting to make an Air Corps meteorologist; but draftees...
Telescope long covers came off, and astronomers abandoned secluded existences to lay open the far reaches of space to all first-nighters at the Harvard Observatory's annual season of "Open Nights" which began last Wednesday.
Applications for Civil Service exams to the post of Junior Professional Assistant will close on November 3. Blank forms are available at University R, for Seniors and graduate students. The general title covers three optional subjects: Administrative Technician, Business Analyst, and Economist.
But Mencken is still a newspaperman. He stopped writing regularly for the Baltimore Sunpapers early this year, but he still covers an occasional story as a reporter. He is also a director of the Sunpapers, and is now conducting the management's negotiations with the Newspaper Guild. Most afternoons...