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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 200 earnest characters met in Los Angeles for pregnant shoptalk about sterility. With straight scientific faces, the American Society for the Study of Sterility (western branch) sat down to consider the fact that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless, and why. When Paul Popenoe, director of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations, rose to speak, he nearly stopped the show. Said...
...same report, the interim committee, appointed at the start of this term by the Cambridge branch of the Advocate trustees, proposed that the magazine move inward from its previous position on the literary fringes and attempt to grapple with various kinds of current problems. Watt said that there would still be room for two or three short stories in each issue, but that the accent would also fall on articles of national or international interest...
Temporarily inoperative due to the usual rigors of New England winter, this branch of the HOC plans to take to the roads again with the first breath of spring...
...first definite step in getting The Advocate back into print was taken yesterday when the Cambridge branch of the magazine's trustees announced that a four-man committee, headed by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47, of Leverett House and Putney, Vermont, had been named to prepare the ground for a first issue...
...Richards, publicity director of the United Service's women's branch, announced that Porter's speech, which she expects to be "of great interest," will be open to the public at no cost...