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Along with the trend toward neatness and feminity and the emphasis on belts, accessories of all kinds are getting attention. The all-purpose leather pocketbook is being made in a variety of shapes and sizes, a boon to the little girl who looks as if she's carrying her laundry when she sports an Amazon-sized satchel bag. The favorite all-purpose gloves are still string-knit, with the British product out in front...
...this country to accomplish his purpose. It went on to say: "The last time U.S. Reds were investigated-by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1919-some 5,000 people were arrested and 263 deported . . . Some Congressmen think that to stamp out U.S. Communism now would be a national boon, cheap at any price...
Even selection of courses, for the first two years, at any rate, follows the same paternalistic pattern. Here, however, the administration's watchful guidance can be considered a definite boon...
...their annual meeting in 1948, nine Dixie governors agreed on a simple answer: they would share each other's campuses. They set up a council, opened headquarters in Atlanta, went into operation in 1949. By last week, the Southern Regional Education Board had become the biggest boon that Southern education has ever known - "the greatest bargain," says Florida's Fuller Warren, "since manna fell on the children of Israel...
...never knows who may to scrutinize his post. It's may be a prospective employer, in which case the records to college extracurricular affiliations kept in University Hall are a boon. Or it might be the local investigation committee. Disputes over the membership list requirement usually center on this somewhat hypothetical, but nonetheless menacing, possibility, but recently the Council has attacked it on both counts...