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...Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration lists in St. Louis elections (1937), its campaign to rid the city of smoke (1941), an investigation of the Centralia mine disaster (1948), rooting out newspapermen on the Illinois state payroll (1950), and exposing corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Harvard I seldom saw joy expressed over learning a foreign language. Students swelter through a few terms of French or German to get rid of an unpleasant language requirement by pulling down 564 (?) on the qualifying exam; and that's the end. The thought of reading a book for pleasure in French or German seldom enters a Harvard man's mind. Everything "worthwhile" has been written in or translated in English, seems to be the general attitude, and it was my own until these past few months...
...commission, which expires next month, would not be renewed, because the "probable decline in business" before his court had made him "surplus." The judge was outraged: the State Department, he said, "doesn't have the guts to come out and say it's merely trying to get rid of me." He announced a sit-down strike. He would, he said, stay in Germany and go right on being chief justice even after January when his commission expires. Last week State sent Clark a "reminder" that he had been ordered to report back to Washington, but the judge...
...Jacob Kulowski of St. Joseph, Mo. took a more radical line. Much of the trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...
Patterned after "Alcoholics Anonymous," the Yale group has condemned smoking an "subversive,' 'and seeks to cure those, like themselves, who desire to be rid of the urge to smoke...