Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contribution. There is only one criticism of the Advocate's poetry: T. S. Eliot always seems to be lurking somewhere between the lines. The two non-fictional articles are examples of just what the magazine should keep doing. They are unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...
Three weeks after every University billing, some 400 men get the jolt of their lives from the Bursar. A notice, worthy of an absconding "guest," informs them that they have three days to pay their account with attendant fine, or face possible "disciplinary action." Unless they care to read the fine print on their term bills this is their first warning of the drastic methods Harvard uses against its debtors. One contact is enough to send most men scurrying to Lehman Hall...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...chief actor in this story-a gaunt, red-haired Californian whose pen name is Harold Maine-last week published his autobiography (If a Man Be Mad, Doubleday; $3). It is a sobering account, not only of a drunkard's inner agonies, but of U.S. mental hospitals...
Said concurring Justice Stanley H. Fuld: "When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reached by radio today-often far greater in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper-it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is ... [as] harmful to the defamed person's reputation as a publication by writing...