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CRIMSON experience or summer work on a small newspaper is the best introduction to journalism, "New York Times" foreign correspondent and Nieman Fellow Dana A. Schmidt told a conference on careers at Kirkland House, yesterday. Bernad DeVoto '18 discussed the opportunities for the free-lance writer, while editor Arthur A. Clark '29 reported on the publishing field. Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellowship curator, was moderator...
...agreed that the profiteering food sellers should be rooted out and recommended a stern course of direct action. All the buyer had to do was call a policeman and the profiteer would be jailed in the Villa Devoto. Said Perón: "We shall close down for good all shops of all profiteers so that in the future only honest traders will be in business...
...hardly finished speaking when Buenos Aires' attentive police whooped into action. Five fishmongers were fined 5,000 pesos ($352) apiece and whisked off to Villa Devoto for 30 days. Next day, 20 butchers followed them, after shelling out 30,000 pesos each in fines. Miguel Gamboa, director general of prices and supplies, called to his office 800 other butchers and warned that new lists of ceiling prices would be enforced...
...issue, said Editor in Chief Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen, was "to do an historical survey without making it look like an historical survey." Thanks to a careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through the century by Bernard DeVoto, Gerald Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Editor Allen achieved a nostalgic, perceptive review of the last 100 years that was sometimes as sharp and exciting as a newsreel. He was so well pleased with it that he ran off 75,000 copies more than Harper's normal press...
...DeVoto's letter in yesterday's Herald found the political implications in the Cunningham article "disturbing" and "scurrilous." Stating his point in a series of questions, he asked, "Does Mr. Cunningham believe that the freedoms so guaranteed (in the Constitution) should be restricted or abridged? If so, to which citizens should they be restricted and how much should they be abridged...