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...editorial declared the need to "denounce all who stand in the way of the triumph of the good cause," the Tribune last week said it expressed current Tribune policy even better than it did 80 years ago. The final paragraph marked a new high in the Colonel's coupon-clipping from the Tribune's Lincolnian inheritance. Declared Medill: "We bid our contemporaries, then, who would rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time, in our own manner, in company of our own choosing, knowing...
Simple, said Editor Shaw. Pearl Harbor inspired the idea. Clevelanders were invited in December to fill out a coupon in the Press describing the servicemen they were interested in, giving name of unit, home address, names of kin, anything else of interest. In return the Press promised to tell them any news it had about the servicemen concerned. Over 5,000 coupons have rolled in, usually with photographs. Keeping the file is a fulltime job for two staff members. But it has paid off handsomely in circulation...
...shyly at his hatchet, admitted that "possible inequities" inherent in his proposal would have to be ironed out. Washington observers still expected that Congress, holding its nose as usual, would tie the usual rock to the Secretary's proposal. No one doubted that Mr. Morgenthau, with his incorrigible coupon-clipping conception of economics, would bring his little hatchet out again...
Aside from these two changes--the universal $8.50 board rate and the use of coupon books, both of which will be charged by the student--there will be no difference in procedure. The same old table cards will be used whenever the student sits down for a meal in his own House. If he has a friend from another House over for lunch, he will go through the same slip-signing process as he did last year. But if he has a guest, or buys cigarettes, or gets a sirloin steak and three extra grapefruits at supper, then he must...
...soldier keeps himself and his bunk neat and clean he has nothing to fear from the inspecting officer. If, as the young lady writes, the men all but become neurotic wrecks as the result of an anticipated inspection, then you can bet your last P. X. coupon that they must have had a hectic "night before...