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...National Committee for Education on Alcoholism announced plans to place fund-raising coin boxes in Manhattan saloons. Campaign slogan: "You Can Drink. Help the Sick Alcoholic Who Can't-Al-coholism Is a Disease...
Watson said that no profit will be allowed from the Bendixes, which will be coin-operated. All revenue from the machines must go to the House Committee, rather than to a private company, and the committee must use all the money for expenses and maintenance. It will also have to pay the University for electricity and water...
Early in the fall, the Adams and Dunster House Committees simultaneously--and independently--decided to try to clean up the laundry problem. They came up with the idea of installing coin-operated washing machines in the House basements, allowing a student to run off his week's wash for a few cents. The University had previously faded the hopes of a local capitalist who wanted to install a row of these wash-while-you-wait contraptions, stating that a profit-making scheme could not operate on University property...
...their won machines, but Vice-President Reynolds poured cold water on the idea. The Adams House Committee persevered, arguing that local laundries would be no more injured by such House competition than they were by the flourishing Radcliffe washers, and that there was a precedent for non-profit coin-machines in the ruling which permitted the House to run coke dispensers...
...thousands of fans bought the platter and listened. Here, for a change, was a girl who really sang, straight out and straight on the beat, instead of cooing mushily and straying away from the band. Last month, her warmly sung Again crept into Variety as a comer on the coin machines. By last week, Vera and Again seemed headed straight for the hit parade...