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...Dartmouth seniors saw an opportunity. They had seen girl after distressed girl come up for a Dartmouth weekend with the wrong clothes, the wrong expectations, the wrong attitude. William B. Jones and Richard H. O'Riley thought they could improve that situation, if anybody could. They had already written a men's guide to women's colleges, For Men Lonely (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). Last week they published a sequel: Weekend, A Girl's Guide to' the College Weekend (Houghton Mifflin...
...year-old Indianapolis News, once published by Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Charles W. Fairbanks), was long the kingpin of the Hoosier press. James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard once graced its staff, and Press Lord Roy Howard, a home-town boy, got his first newspaper job at $4 a week. Lately, with rising costs and dwindling profits, the News needed a new building and new presses-and perhaps a new management...
...made him a full colonel; eight years later, he got his first major command: a Harlem National Guard regiment. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...
...excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week they rose up against flashy, cigar-chewing Earl Riley, who had been picked by the OWI as a "typical U.S. mayor" and sent on a wartime mission to Britain (TIME, Sept. 13, 1943). In Riley's place they named-for the first time in the city's history-a woman...
...Riley, who has been mayor for eight years, had been charged by Portland's influential City Club with negligence in stamping out vice in the Rose City. Mrs. Lee had promised: "I will enforce...