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...Cambridge. The catalogue of courses was, in the past, a sometimes fascinating, sometimes forbidding, but always necessary booklet. This year, as an added attraction, the Faculty has decked it out in a shiny new spring outfit. First of all, course numberings have been entirely rearranged in order to get rid of the hodgepodge of numerals, letters, and combinations of the two that cluttered up all previous listings. The new system is a model of simplicity: as the numbers go higher, the courses become more advanced. Most of the old, traditional freshman courses have the old, traditional designations, and most...
Remedy. In Houston, lucky Mabel Boling finally got rid of her case of hiccups in a three-way auto smashup and explosion...
...editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some of the more expensive help? The list came down to half a dozen, but Johnson found himself caught in a tug-of-war between Straight and the American Newspaper Guild. Last week, when the six employees left, Edd Johnson walked out too. And faithful Bruce Bliven, who had stepped...
...sensationalism cooked to Hearstian taste. Time has dulled the edge of the slangy, informal jargon that won Runyon so many admirers, and his dramatic exclamations pale into mere verbosity when Mrs. Snyder is asked "Why did you kill your husband?" and gives the utterly simple reply: "To get rid...
This week Coxhead Corp. was ready to get rid of the typewritten look. It had a new model machine whose type was almost indistinguishable to the layman from ordinary newspaper print. Unlike the old Vari-Typers, which can print in Arabic and 50 other foreign languages, the new machine has only five type faces, as yet, but they are specifically designed for newspaper printing...