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...official drive will be launched through the Navy Department for the sale of War Bonds beginning next week. This program is being carried out by all laud based Naval stations and it is hoped that over 20 percent will be enlisted in a program of regular payroll allotment for the purchase of bonds...
...woman's place may be in the home, but you can't tell that to the Harvard Employment Office. A 40 percent increase in the number of employees this year includes a 25 percent rise in feminine help, a 10 percent larger increase in women than in men. Besides their usual posts as waitresses, chambermaids, and office workers, the weaker sex has assumed many positions formerly considered too strenuous for them...
Coincidentally, McCarthy knows more about Harvard than 99 percent of periodical editors. He was born on Mt. Auburn St. at Harvard Square and his home for 20 years was on the corner of Brattle and Hilliard. Attending B.C., he worked on the Boston Post for several years. After he graduated in 1939, he worked on sports publicity with Frank Ryan until he was drafted from PBH in the Yard in February...
According to a recent survey in Time magazine, causualty figures in the merchant marine have amounted to 3.8 percent of all personnel serving at sea, with the figure for the Army and Navy
Fifty-three percent of these convictions were of Jehovah's Witnesses, the sect which contends that all its members are ministers of the Gospel. About 8% were what Selective Service calls "rationalists," i.e., men who based their objection on what they had figured out for themselves and not out of religious teaching...