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Ohio's century-old Marietta College was founded by strait-laced Congregationalists, and it has never quite cottoned to some of the newfangled freedoms. Marietta's trustees didn't like it when President William A. Shimer, 53, got a divorce a year ago. They disapproved even more when Shimer began courting Dean of Women Dorothy Blair, 36, and someone printed on the wall outside his house: "Dottie loves Willie-Willie loves Dottie...
...wraps became a strait jacket. The small British cars could not compete in the foreign market. If manufacturers wanted to sell abroad, they had to make bigger export models, an expensive process. So production remained small, prices high, and there was little standardization...
Last week Britons decided that if autos were to pull their weight in the export program, the strait jacket had to go. So, beginning next Jan. 1, there will be a flat annual tax of ?10 ($40) on all new autos, regardless of horsepower...
...biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction...
...voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...