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...refugee, the cardboard covers of a passport hold the promise of rest, respectability, a registered place in the world of homes and sovereignties. In Britain last week, stateless refugees of World War II again enjoyed the untold luxury of passports. They were issued by the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees (composed of 36 nations...
...Entering the lobby I noticed displays of two books, That Man Frank Buchman and Ideas Have Legs, both by one Peter Howard. Near by were posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...
...just to make himself useful. As soon as his Centre d'Art opened its doors, self-taught painters came crowding happily in for instruction. Peters stared at their pink, purple, pale green and yellow pictures of murders and bouquets (mostly painted with furniture enamel on scraps of cardboard), decided the best he could do for such talented pupils was to supply them with materials and let them paint...
Unexpectedly, the school gong rang, and at the signal (which teachers mistook for a fire drill) 260 students filed out of the brick schoolhouse. Gallused tobacco growers loafing around the country courthouse in Rogersville, Tenn. (pop. 2,018) watched the kids coming, gaped in surprise when they read the cardboard signs. The kids were on strike for something kids weren't supposed to care too much about: they wanted more and better teachers...
Expected for the Rutgers clash are flash-cards for stunts between the halves. Each seat in the nominal cheering section will have a piece of cardboard, crimson on one side and white on the other. The cheerleaders will signal a number to the men in the stands, who will merely have to look on their cards to see which color is appropriate for their positions. Another signal and the Harvard side of the Stadium will metamorphose from a sea of drab overcoats into waves of color, depicting "the banks of the old Raritan," bears, bulldogs, or what-have...