Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Goodfriend of the Paris Stars & Stripes did not read aright the figures on the schooling of servicemen (TIME, Jan. 29). The percentage of soldiers who have not completed four years of high school is 60.8, not "about 70%" as the Major concluded. He did not take account of 12.3% who have completed high school and some college work beyond, but short of graduation from college...
...thought you and some of our subscribers might like to know what it costs some of TIME & LIFE'S correspondents to live and work in Paris, so I asked three of them to give me an account of their expenses on a typical day. The day we picked was January 18. And here is what we spent in francs (you can get francs in the black market for less than the pegged price, but we buy all ours at the legal rate of 2? U. S. per franc...
Much-traveled Author Isherwood's early novel, The Last of Mr. Norris (TIME, May 20, 1935), was a grisly, eyewitness account of British pro-Nazis in Berlin. His Journey to a War (with verse commentary by W. H. Auden) was a stark, unromanticized look at embattled China. Now this rebellious son of a British lieutenant colonel lives monastically with three other men and eight women in a small house adjoining the alabaster temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He shares his income and the housework with his fellow students, and daily ponders the teachings of his master...
...defined by SEC, "floor trading is buying or selling by a member for his own account which is initiated by the member while he is physically on the exchange floor." But no matter how defined, SEC has never liked it, refuses to concede that floor traders' deals often tend to smooth out violent price swings. As far back as June 1936, SEC threatened complete suppression of floor trading, later relented. Last week the Commission announced that it was readying a rule to prohibit floor trading altogether...
...outlived the mauve elegance of his contemporaries (Wilde, Beardsley, et al.) to become a respected critic; in Wittersham, Kent, England. As a translator, he introduced to the English-speaking world the Continental refinements of Verlaine, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio. His best-received book, Confessions (1930), was an autobiographical account of an overly sensitive mind lost in Italy and recovered in a British asylum...