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This would be a dubious victory for Commissioner McDowell. His administration will probably prove efficient, and deal out punishment impartially to all prisoners. But the world famous program of Dr. Van Waters was not based on an icy prison mechanism. It rebuilt shattered human lives. the loss of such a program would hurt not only the Framingham Reformatory and the state of Massachusetts, but the intangible ideal of progressive public service with which Miriam Van Waters has become identified...
Network maintenance men said they expected far higher quality in transcriptions from their new record players. The old ones will be rebuilt for use in afternoon disc jockey sessions which WHRV hopes to initiate soon. The network has also added new amplifying equipment and microphones to get greater efficiency out of their transmitters...
...Force of Habit." Despite periodic warnings, the White House has been slowly falling to pieces for years. The wood construction of the first floor had been replaced with concrete and steel during Teddy Roosevelt's administration. The third floor had been similarly rebuilt in 1927. But the timbers of the second floor, where Presidents and their families live, had been left unchanged - a fact which prompted Franklin Roosevelt to install a canvas chute, down which he could have plummeted to the lawn, if fire broke...
...Palais de Chaillot was rebuilt in 1937, for the Paris world's fair of that year, and has since been used mainly as a museum. To the Palais de Chaillot this week came delegates to the third general session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Parisians called them "Les Onusiens" from Organisation des Nations Unies.)* Noticing a musee ferme sign on a glass door of the Palais, a Frenchman in overalls snarled: "What do they mean, 'museum closed?' What do they think is going on in there...
Moon-Shooter. Curtice and his ace salesman Bill Hufstader rebuilt the dealer organization, brought out low, medium and high-priced Buicks that could compete in almost any price range. By 1941, when Buick turned out 316,251 cars, they had pushed from eighth place to fourth, crowding out Dodge, Pontiac and Oldsmobile along the way. Once when the late Bill Knudsen saw one of Curtice's sales forecasts, he muttered: "Well, by Got, you can't shoot the moon unless you see it first, you know." Curtice not only made Buick one of G.M.'s most profitable...