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Swamped with work a few weeks ago, a private secretary named Thelma Goldman in the Detroit headquarters of the United Automobile Workers asked for help, was promptly provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...
...after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising speed of 155 m.p.h. Designed for mail only, they will be catapulted by German ships at each end as were the two Lufthansa planes which test-flew the Atlantic last summer (TIME, Sept. 21). Last week...
...rolling campus, bridle paths and dormitories were thronged with 600 old Stephens graduates, assembled for a special meeting of their alumnae association. Together with 1,500 other guests including Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, they were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee by graduating his 25th Stephens class, whose members will wear silver gowns and mortar boards...
...Methodist institution, opened in 1914 on Washington's northwest side, American University has ever since been trying to live up to its imposing name. To most Washingtonians it is merely a trim collection of white buildings. Students of the social sciences know and respect its School of Public Affairs and its earnest Graduate School. To diplomatic Washington, however, American University is notable as the school where Ellery Cory Stowell teaches international...
...fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved it into the red material, tugged here, patted there and in ten minutes had a trim, 17-ft. boat shaped like an Eskimo kayak. Two more sticks merged into a double-ended paddle. The hiker stripped to a bathing suit, stowed his clothes forward in his little craft, stepped agilely aboard and shot away into the rapids. Instant later he vanished in a spate of spray...