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...Cambridge 38. On last Tuesday night, the night set aside for students' wives, my wife went to H. A. A.'s pool for a swim. She was required to pay fifty cents for admission instead of the usual thirty-five. Next day I sought an explanation for this 42 percent increase. The reply, "Oh, the A.A. announced a general increase in all fees July...
...organization out of debt. Or did the price of handballs go up with the murder of OPA, causing increased operating costs To tax a student's wife, already hard pressed to find an occasional evening's recreation within her vet-husband's 90-buck budget, an extra 40-odd percent for a swim is a practice that surely will not bring praise to the Harvard Athletic Association. John Lawrence...
...received. The Oyster Shell (restaurant) all meat dishes up $.05 to $.10 Woolworth 5-and 10 shoe trees from $.39 to $.49 Fiske's ice cream, with dinner, $.10 to $.15 Harvard Variety Store $.05 rise on ice cream cones Young Lee's Restaurant all dinners up about 30 percent...
...thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Georgia...
...needs that hold. Without the greatest meeting of heart, mind and magic, no man could hope to put the Philippines together again. There is no national economy, no export trade. Fifty percent of the carabaos, on which farming depends, have been killed by bombs and bullets or slaughtered for food during the war. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city...