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...Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
Although he did not object to the brigades of young men who invaded his parlor to call on his daughters, he kept a lamp burning high and terminated the courting in good time by confronting the visitors with his arms full of hats...
...England men's singles might as well have stayed home. There apparently was just no tennis amateur anywhere in the world who could give California's 25-year-old Jack Kramer a workout. Before leaving the U.S., Kramer had taken the precaution of having lamp treatments for a gimpy "tennis elbow" and last week was in top trim...
Though the American Community School had to share in all of France's shortages, its first postwar year had not gone badly. Textbooks, chalk and lamp bulbs were hard to get, the electric current was cut off frequently. But fiftyish Headmaster Paul de Rosay was an old hand at the game. He had first gone to France in World War I with a Harvard ambulance unit. In 1923 he opened the first American day school in Paris for the children of U.S. businessmen and diplomats abroad...
...official holiday in the town of Princeton, NJ. Mayor Minot (Mike) Morgan Jr., a Princeton University graduate ('35) himself, had urged all 7,719 townsmen to "lay aside normal tasks" in honor of the university. Flags hung from windows and fluttered from lamp posts. At 9:30, the presidential train from Washington pulled slowly into the station. Harry Truman, who never went to college, had come to get his tenth honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to help celebrate Princeton's sooth year...