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...year-old New England Conservatory of Music last week opened its School of Popular Music, first of its kind to be started by a Grade-A music school. Its short-haired faculty: eleven experts, headed by starry-eyed Ruby Newman, who wrung his evocative hands for four years running in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, last season manipulated smart airs at 70 debutante parties...
...when, the railroads are permitted to purchase this new equipment, the cost to them will be about $350 million, the steel required will be close to 2 million tons. But this year the railroads will turn back to the steel mills well over 3½ million tons of high-grade scrap, enough when mixed with ore to turn out more than three times as much new steel as the railroads are asking for next year's equipment needs...
...Even the celluloid film is wrong. The silky panchromatic light which properly drenches a grade-A romance softens the strongest images of courage or death into a comfortable fiction...
Special attention is called to the fact that any student entering the examination room must hand in an examination book, may not leave the examination before half of the period (1 1-2 hours) has elapsed, and will have a grade recorded in the Summer School Office...
...educators heard tough talk from their Government this week. Gathered in Washington for a four-day Institute on Education and the War, 600 leaders of the nation's schools and colleges were directed to train their pupils in military fundamentals from grade school to college. Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt curtly told them: "There is no excuse for any young man or woman to be in college preparing for any profession not directly useful to the war effort...