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...people so far this winter, reports Pollster George Horace Gallup. With several winter months to go, it may pass the 25% mark set in the 1940-41 season. In the last half of December 1943, colds passed the former Gallup-polled peak of February 1942, by 40%. During the two-week Christmas period of Dec. 17-30, a quarter of the population had colds. All in all, 66% of the U.S. people have suffered either from colds or from flu since the winter began...
Miscellany: Byrne--he of the trigger mind--urges the shortening of the Harvard deal to a two-week stint . . . Orchild of the week to the Welfare Office for the Kid Xmas Party . . . Things we still don't understand: Why they call Pike "Conscienceless" . . . Section A has learned that the two-finger rule must be applied in more than one of their classes--ask Cook . . . Tomorrow will be the first "normal" working Nooyers Day for quite a few of the communicators . . . Until next week, HNY and all that...
...according to the Chicago Daily News) would "demonstrate the culture of Chicago, and . . . counteract certain dark spots in the reputation of the city." But by week's end only 216 books had been bought, and it looked as if the only opera Chicago would have would be a two-week season of guesting by Manhattan's Met. Such a guest season would be enough opera to entitle the Opera House to an approximate $100,000 tax exemption granted to it as a cultural institution...
...Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...
...keep up with his expanding company, May started his own schools to train his own efficiency experts. To become an expert, the student takes a two-week course. One requirement for graduation (according to an ex-student): an essay on George S. May, the Man. One of May's honor graduates last June was handsome, Jew-baiting Joe McWilliams, ex-head of the so-called Christian Mobilizers. After McWilliams spent two months installing May efficiency systems in wai plants, the FBI called on May, caused him reluctantly to fire McWilliams. Said May later: "I think...