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...Reader's Digest," announced Editor Lila Bell Acheson in the second issue, "is successful beyond all anticipations." The fifth month brought a crisis; the Digest couldn't pay the printer, and Wallace was plunged in gloom. At first Lila was crushed by these moods, which would "just descend on him like a black cloud. It was all new to me-it just isn't in my nature to worry. Then I realized he liked to worry, so I started kidding him out of it." Another flood of subscriptions ended the crisis...
This week seniors get tickets Wednesday, juniors on Thursday, and freshmen and sophomores will have to descend on the H.A.A. offices together on Friday. Ticket sellers expect that there will be some severe jamming Friday but have decided there is no help...
...that man singing?" asks the girl. "It is Paul Robeson, one of the greatest singers in the world," says the dove. Finally, the dove and the girl land in Stockholm and in Warsaw, where many other doves arrive, thousands of doves, millions of doves. Like snowflakes they descend from the sky. And the vultures are frightened and are driven back into the land of eternal darkness...
...done, he wrote, by using two satellite stations as intermediate refueling and supply bases. The first satellite station would revolve around the earth and form the starting point for the interplanetary voyaging. The second would be established in an orbit around Mars. Then specially designed "landing boats" would descend into the thin Martian atmosphere to explore the planet's surface...
Warned Senator Paul Douglas: "The rains of appropriations are beginning to descend. Pretty soon the waters of inflation-unless we do something to stop them-will burst upon the nation." Back in his old corner, the Illinois Senator was pleading once again for Government economy. He was talking in particular about a pork-laden Rivers and Harbors bill that was before the Senate, but he included all federal spending in his admonitions. According to Douglas' estimates, the Government may very well incur a "staggering deficit of $19 billion" next year...