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Dean Rogers of G.S.A.S. and vice-Dean Hall of the Law School have been meeting with their respective councils since these bodies were elected a week and a half ago to create a permanent set of dormitory regulations. The current temporary set contains a much maligned requirement that women are forbidden in graduate dormitory rooms excepting in pairs...
...late Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio) Anderson was a hard man to tap for a free book, according to the current Saturday Review of Literature. Answering the Chicago Historical Society's request for a copy of his novel Marching Men, Rebel Anderson wrote, in 1917: ". . . I am not a popular writer, at least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle...
Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 16, now a junior in high school, started a new semester with a load of work: French, economic history, natural science, world history, history of Japanese literature, geometry, ethics, English, current affairs...
Sharp Cuts. This week the Administration planned to slap on new credit controls designed to trim the rate of new housing starts from the current 1,400,000 a year to 800,000. That alone would free about $3 billion worth of materials and thousands of workers. In fact, builders already had cut back so sharply that some of them were warning that existing controls will carry "deflation" in building too far (see Housing...
...associations of the industry-the Mortgage Bankers, the Home Builders, the Lumber Dealers, the Associated General Contractors, and the Producers Council -got together on a comprehensive program in support of U.S. rearmament.** Chief point: house building should be cut back to 1,000,000 units a year from the current rate...