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Underground Economist. The Théophraste Renaudot Prize went to David Rousset, for his L'Univers Concentrationnaire, a graphic, harrowing description of life in Nazi concentration camps in France. Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the somewhat more exciting work of organizing anti-Nazi groups inside the German Army. A spy got into Rousset's organization and all the Germans were executed, but the Gestapo could not find evidence linking Rousset with the plot; he got off with a year and a half in five...
Richard H. Gerard (real name: Richard G. Husch), virtually unknown author of Sweet Adeline's lyrics, retired in Manhattan at 70-to "knock off a few hits." The job he retired from: foreman of the application file bureau of the money order division at the General Post Office...
When the veteran housing problem developed, the University managed to purchase, through the Federal Public Housing Administration, these six-family units. The Government transported them down from Maine, where they had been occupied by war workers, erected them, and left the Harvard Housing Bureau on its own. The University handles all the repair and necessary maintenance, pays the light bills and tampers with the plumbing. The students have only to sweep the steps and water the lawn. The veterans' opinion of the Court was summed up by a family man who had served overseas as a colonel with the Army...
...borrow books for fifty cents a term, but few people are going to donate books gratis, and the 35 or 40 per cent return offered by the local dealers creates no great literary market. If a list of the required books for next fall were published by the Veterans Bureau, or possibly PBH, and the Bureau were to pay the student up to 70 per cent of the original cost, a pool of books could be built up, for which the veteran would be charged under the GI authorization only enough more than the turn-in price to take care...
...solid economic fact. During the war, U.S. consumers piled up $90 billion in savings, now hold $130 billion. This huge hoard, according to the economic witch-doctors, would be poured out-to fuel the boom. But last week, in a gloomy and significant report, the conservative U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics said...