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Benjamin Franklin returns to his home town of Boston Friday night in the fifty-third annual performance of the Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania...
...week, Hollywood brayed happily as it contemplated its first assignment in the colossal epic of national defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...
...every student's desk at Edgewood hangs a brand-new gas mask, product of a factory on the reservation where 2,000 women workers hem, stitch and vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days...
Harvard officialdom has shrouded the construction of the Widener Annex in a cloak of mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...
...Mask Drops...