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Congressmen were not the only ones who felt the need for travel and information. In Des Moines last week, 17 Iowa farmers rounded up by the American Farm Bureau Federation plunked down $1,500 apiece for a four weeks' flying trip to Great Britain and the continent. Said 58-year-old Otis Tuttle of Norway, Iowa: "I am satisfied it will be worth the chips. It might wake us up to the fact that America has a responsibility over there. If Europe isn't brought back on its feet, it will be just too bad for America...
Last week, Coronet announced that it would now, for the first time, accept advertising. To advertisers (and the Audit Bureau of Circulations), Coronet would only guarantee an average net paid circulation...
Yesterday's downpour put .9 inches of water into the Boston Weather Bureau's rain guage, but did not break any records, according to the Bureau statistician. On July 15, 2.54 inches of rain fell in a similar two-hour period...
...took it gallantly. She dabbled in real estate, but that bored her. Then one day she flounced into the hotel suite of Dema ("The Brain") Harshbarger, an ample and astute business woman, founder and manager of the NBC Artists' Bureau, who had gone to California to retire. Said Hedda: "I want to get on that air." "In half an hour," says Dema, "she told me more about Hollywood than I could learn in two years of constant study." Dema decided to become Hedda's manager...
U.S.C. chose big, affable, 51-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., dean of the faculties at Northwestern University. Fred Fagg is an air-minded administrator whom Franklin Roosevelt once picked to reorganize the Bureau of Air Commerce. Fagg founded Northwestern's Air Law Institute, the nation's first authority on air law. When he became dean in 1939, he started to streamline Northwestern's liberal arts program. Once the university listed 600 liberal arts courses ("Before Fagg, if you wanted to learn about English literature," said a Northwestern professor last week, "you had to take a course...