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...morning two weeks ago, as Major General Lemuel Mathewson's sharpshooters were at their daily target practice, a stray bullet nicked a seven-year-old girl building castles in the Wannsee sand. The child recovered nicely, but the general, to play safe, ordered the beach closed on weekday mornings thereafter...
...announcing the first changes in weekday trading hours in 79 years, the Stock Exchange took note of two new facts of financial life: 1) brokerage houses all over the U.S. are having trouble finding people willing to work Saturdays; 2) a recent Brookings Institution report showed that the greatest proportion of stockholders live in the Western time belt. Wall Streeters hope the new hours will result in more business. Eight weeks ago the Curb Exchange extended its closing time to 3:30, has been doing more business ever since...
...zeal of Jones Father & Son spreads to most of their students. All classes begin with prayers. Students argue about Bible texts as other collegians talk about sport, politics and sex. At Sunday worship and the weekday chapel services, students steep themselves in "the oldtime religion"-the intimate spiritual question, the gospel hymn, the inspirational prayer...
...third of the unmarried working women move to jobs away from home. In the matter of leisure time, the authors found remarkably little difference between housewives and working women. A third of the women in each group reported that they had five or more free hours on the last weekday before answering the questionnaire. One group reads as many current books as the other. More wives than career women read at least three magazines regularly, but career women belong to more civic and social organizations. But whatever the differences between men and women graduates, married or unmarried, housewife or career...
Dudley's inter-House program has enabled many students from other Houses to eat coupon-free weekday lunches as guests of member Non-residents. Fischelis believes that the plan provides a good chance for commuters and residents to get to know one another...