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...schools fought over grade labeling, over dollars-&-cents ceilings, over how to make OPA orders understandable, over how to work subsidy payments, over making Lou Maxon "general manager" of OPA. Prentiss Brown had not been acting like a strong administrator. Now he told reporters that OPA was not "coming apart at the seams," then admitted he would have to decide between Galbraith and Maxon within the month. This week Galbraith resigned. This might end the internal confusion. It could not stem the outside pressures...
...Ella Thomas of Georgia, WAVES third class yeoman. She was brushing up on English grammar in Atlanta, where she has a Navy clerical job. > Seaman First-Class Marvin R. Eienbass of Michigan, studying on the high seas to be an automobile mechanic. In six lessons he has had no grade lower than...
...what we're in for. Class number One of midshipmen has set quite a record for us. In spite of the lounging we've seen them doing (and not much else that we've seen) they must have really scooted around this place night and day to make the grade (first third of it, anyway) and what we heard and saw on Tuesday is really a goal to set for this class... providing "a case is a case is a case" does not become a plague...
...Songwriter Cole Porter's tuneful Broadway dream about the Court of Louis XV. The Broadway dream was lively enough to wake anybody up. The Hollywood dream is all too easy to sleep through. Broadway offered the team of Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, with a good grade of gents'-room humor. Hollywood substitutes Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, with vulgarity from the lesser lavatories...
...have been given to understand two things First, all men who are called for interview will not necessarily be bilged. Second, all men who make the minimum grade will not necessarily stay on. But, as was promised, it looks like each case will be considered on its own merit. In all seriousness, we'll all be terrifically relieved when the suspense is over. The best of luck to every anxious reader...