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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since this change can mean so much to many servicemen in whom you are personally interested, we are sending you a letter through the mail to tell you more about it and to enclose a special copy of the lightweight "Pony" edition they will receive (because we could not ask the Army Post Offices to carry the fullweight edition as personal mail). And already we have received scores of V-mail letters from soldiers and sailors on far continents telling us what a kick they get out of receiving TIME's news as swiftly as their letters from home...
Tall, bespectacled Brendan Bracken, whose hair looks like a pinkish bird's nest, last week met some 100 members of the U.S. press in Manhattan, played an adroit game of ask-me-another. Said...
...Fourth, we do not ask for equal rations with the Army and Navy as some dispatches report, but only that our points be used to provide meals on an equal, with other civilian colleges. Fifth, students comparing food in Adams and Dunster with that served in the Navy found that the food was different...
...Clevelanders also ask their own health questions. Sample question dropped into the museum's question box: I) "What causes snoring and how can it be cured?" Answer: it may be caused by obstruction such as adenoids, or by relaxation of the soft palate, or by position while sleeping; there is no sure cure...
Most moving plea was by comely, 19-year-old Marie Barker, of Chicago, who wrote Eleanor Roosevelt: "Won't you ask the Army to send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...