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...evening early in 1942 Harris Wofford Jr., 15, was doing his Latin homework and simultaneously listening to his favorite radio program, Mr. District Attorney. When the program ended he did not switch off the radio, because by then he was in the tub. Thus it was that he shortly heard a speaker advancing the merits of Clarence (Union Now) Streit's plan for a federal union of the world's democracies...
...week by the American Council on Education, "College investments under War Conditions" disclosed that the collegiate moneylenders had not earned less than 4% since 1938. Noting that a few colleges were still following a "Rip van Winkle" financial policy of "turning over once and then sleeping," the Council recommended homework on the tried & true "Vassar Plan": buy stocks when the Dow-Jones industrial average is under 130, cash them in for bonds when the market booms...
...Provincial Treasurer Clarence Fines, 38, used to be a schoolteacher. He has been working at political socialism for 15 years, was in on the party's birth ten years ago in Regina. Fines learned what he knows about public finance from his own homework, eight years on Regina's City Council...
...people, anxious to see exactly where Son John or Cousin Bill is stationed, rushed to buy maps. They needed the maps in their homework. For while cables and radio brought news of the invasion in staggering quantity, an even greater amount of a different kind of news was pouring into the U.S. in the millions of letters from servicemen on all fronts...
...Bulletin of Robert and William L. McLean Jr. was typically sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...