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...first sixteen months, Accounting Corp. has grossed about $300,000, will net a sizeable chunk of this, since their expenses are small (they have only 60 employes). Last week, Silverman and Hession were in New York to explore the eastern market. Business was so brisk that Hession quipped: "We even had to hire bookkeepers to keep our own books...
...unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic that makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years later, hunted by Hitler and still haunted by his crime, he flees to France to refund the money-only to find that the sole heir is a hard-boiled French Nazi...
...apparently ignoring the necessity of maintaining military forces in Germany and Japan sufficient to insure successful Occupation. President Truman's proposed slash of the Army and Navy allotment by almost one-half has been criticized by Senator Taft, whose suggested 1947 budget cuts the Truman expenditures by over sixteen billion dollars. Running the country with lower expenditures may be justified in the termination of the emergency and the dissolution of many of the wartime bureaus, but it does not include the jeopardizing of national social security and abandonment of international commitments...
...tide of Republican fortunes which began to ebb sixteen years ago, and almost disappeared in 1936, yesterday came flooding back with a force equalling even the fondest dreams of B. Carroll Reece, the G.O.P. national chairman. With control of the House of Representatives assured and a majority in the Senate indicated by the latest returns, the Republicans can read the lessons of history and look forward to 1948 with confidence. For without exception, the capturing of a Congressional majority by the party out of power in an off-year election has presaged a Presidential victory by that party two years...
Sometime around the spring term of 1943, the last vestiges of "education as usual" went out the wartime window at Harvard as in other schools. The program of sixteen courses and eight terms of study for an A.B. or S.B. disappeared down the maw of preinduction acceleration. A twelve-week summer term became an established institution, and, later, for the great majority of students then in the services, a system of war service credits was instituted. Credit towards one's degree was offered for such diverse subjects as basic training, meteorology, and Japanese...