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...golfers, the 4.000,000 tennis players, and innumerable ball-bouncers, the grim reality of war was brought stunningly home last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi...
...Drolet pointed out that our t.b. rate rose after our entry into World War I, that it is now rising in other war-stricken countries. In Glasgow, he said, the deaths from t.b. jumped from 960 in 1938 to an estimated 1,342 in 1941; in Hong Kong they went from...
John W. Sullivan '43, who represented the Council in the negotiations with the Red Cross, said that in addition to its usual activities of relief work in stricken areas and emergencies in the U. S. A. and abroad, the organization was taking on a new responsibility now, that of helping draftees with problems and emergencies which are not covered...
Venezuela, the poverty-stricken source of fabulous oil fortunes, has the highest cost of living in South America. Gunther's small, windowless hall bedroom cost him $8 a day. The first thing he saw in Venezuela was a large signboard reading: CURE YOURSELF OF SYPHILIS...
...Austria things have, for years, been extraordinarily difficult. Almost everyone is poverty-stricken and living from hand-to-mouth. Although one would sincerely regret Austria being merged in the German Reich, the fact remains that the average Austrian would, for a variety of reasons, probably find life far easier than at present. Unless there were drastic frontier alterations in Europe, which one cannot visualize except as the result of a war, Austria clearly has no future. This certainly cannot be said of Germany, which one must admit is an extraordinarily progressive country, however one may deplore many happenings resulting from...