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...Congress, two of the Capitol's four flags fly day & night all the year round over the east and west fronts. By custom, two fly over the Senate and House wings when those bodies are in session...
...When an enemy submarine is sunk, the British Admiralty usually delays announcement of it, to withhold information and increase worry for the German High Command. Last week the Admiralty departed from this custom, announced the sinking in one day of two U-boats by one British destroyer. Emphasized-to encourage neutrals-was the fact that these U-boats had attacked a convoy off Ireland. Additional fact: they sank at least one of the convoyed ships (the Canadian Beaverburn). And another ship, the Chagres, was lost to a mine...
Business of President Warren and her 58 teachers (one to five students) is to give each girl an individual, "custom-built" education. When she is admitted, a Sarah Lawrence girl has to tell the college what studies, friends, movies, books, magazines she likes, what she does in her spare time, what she worries about. To each girl the college assigns a "don," who advises her each week about her studies, her dates, her worries. First thing a girl does is to take an "explanatory course" (e.g., "Literature and Society"), to help her decide what to study. Freshmen also may take...
...Chamber was called to order, as custom provides, by its most aged member, M. Georges Lévy-Alphandéry, 78. While the Deputies listened to his quavering and cackling the seven Reds took their seats unobtrusively. When old Lévy-Alphandéry asked the Chamber to rise "in homage to the armed forces of France," three rose but four kept their seats. "Throw them out!" shouted the Deputies...
What Editor Vischer was beefing about, he well knew, was an old Spanish custom, once regularly observed by every major bullfighter who prized his press clippings. It is also an old freeloading custom of the U. S. press, enjoyed in one guise or another by many sportswriters covering big-league baseball (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938), boxing, Bowl games, professional football. At one race track reporters reportedly got pay envelopes each week, were hurt at meet's end when the track management asked for their social security numbers, considering them track employes...