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...Freshmen entering last June who have already reported, 32, or 14 percent, enrolled in English or literature combinations, while Economics claims 13.6 percent with 31 concentrators. Comparison with selections of the Class of 1946, peak war group, is striking. This class leaned heavily toward the Bio-chemical Sciences, 18.4 percent of a cross-section of 245 Freshmen electing that field...
...Mellon from the second floor up is charged to the hilt with talk since Fortune brought its western issue out. Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
...Four Jills in a Jeep" for here again the cinemagnates proudly pat themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
...last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
...sure of getting enough goods to keep sales at their peak, the merchants brought with them the greatest troupe of buyers ever to invade Manhattan's wholesale markets. Some wholesalers dourly accused the merchants of doing a little panic buying on their own account...