Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...oversight or bad reporting that TIME failed to note that Miss Jacqueline Cochran flew an experimental military pursuit airplane, owned and designed by Republic Aviation Corp., when she flew three weeks ago, under rigid test conditions, faster than man (or woman) ever has done before on a 2,000 kilometer course...
Victor, in a reassuring note to its dealers, says that the Red Seal sales will be affected little if any by this innovation--that the "true" record buyers are "name-conscious" to such a degree that for a few paltry dollars difference they won't descend to buying classical works rendered by competent but less famous musicians and recorded with slightly less fidelity. It feels that the new series will mean larger grosses and gradually build up public taste to a degree where they will go one step up to Red Seal...
...Note: The University has made clear that the issue is not freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...
...Harlow was gloomily reviewing the season ending with the loss to Yale, a small package arrived with a note attached, which said: "I know you smoke cigars and thought this would be as good a time as any to send...
...note was signed "James B. Conant," and says Jones, "I can imagine a thoughtful gesture like this from the head of a university might mean more to a beaten football coach than all the five-year, $15,000 contracts in the world...