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Princeton University will return to its 1942-43 calendar when the termination of the V-12 unit no longer makes it necessary to conform to the Navy schedule, Robert K. Root, dean of the faculty, announced yesterday. This is the first concrete stop taken by any one of the Big Three toward de-acceleration and reconversion to a peacetime program...
...Italians come to work at 8 or 9 in the morning, knock off at 1 for a three-hour lunch and siesta, resume work around 4 or 4:30. Government offices usually stay open until 7 or 8, despite anguished British-U.S. efforts to make the Italians conform to British-U.S. hours...
...Americans like to think of themselves as horselaughing individualists. In fact, says Brogan. ever since pioneer days the American wife, mother and schoolteacher have done a pretty successful job of making the menfolk conform. Town-proud Americans have felt that free-for-all "crab bing" is no way to build up a continent, have had short patience with individual ists and dissenters...
...because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning to surround it with a 10 ft. canvas fence and show the movie outdoors. The building laws stopped them...
...receipts would be handed to the local Camp and Hospital Service Committee. Official Reno opposition vanished. Then Goldwyn had only to import a non-inflammable film (cost: $1,000) and build a false wooden floor in the dance hall so that 400 borrowed chairs could be nailed down to conform to building laws...