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...nation's leading businessmen got a chance last week at Hot Springs, Va. to sound a clarion call for what the Government should do about the recession-but they never got the horn to their lips. Instead, the more than 100 members of the Business Advisory Council, a blueblood business group that advises the Secretary of Commerce on top policy matters, spent their semiannual meeting without reaching any clear-cut conclusions about the economy, particularly the matter...
Married. Eleanor Steber, 41, clarion-voiced dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera; and Major Gordon Guelberth Andrews, 39, faculty member at the U.S. Army's Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.; both for the second time; at Fort Slocum...
...than those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance to those he left behind. Thousands turned out in a driving rain to greet him when he returned home in 1945, and the re-enthroned King, sensing his people's wishes, began his new reign by rejecting all pleas for clemency for the traitor Quisling...
Checking up on public response to the idea of the four-day work week, which may be labor's next great clarion call, Gallup pollsters last week found that relatively few Americans want more leisure. Of those questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from...
...Geordie (Gilliat & Launder; George K. Arthur). "ARE YOU UNDERSIZED? LET ME MAKE A DIFFERENT MAN OF YOU!" Wee Geordie's heart gave a glorious thump as he read the ad in the Drumfechan Clarion. He was undersized indeed; so wee a bairn of ten years old was hardly to be seen in all the glen. At school he had to stand on a box to reach the blackboard, and when he went walking with bonny Jean, she was half a head taller than he. That very night, with the courage of desperation, the thrifty young Scotsman scraped his last...