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...Counselor for Veterans office and the University cooperated to start the newcomers off on credit, relieving the students of their worries about tuition and book fees, and their experience in handling such matters under pressure is enabling them to meet the needs of the present greatly increased numbers with dispatch...
...York Times buried the story under a small head on page five. It also buried Dr. Armattoe in a real bit of down-the-nose, deadpan journalism. At the end of its story the Times said: "Dr. Armattoe, in his capacity as an anthropologist, was quoted in a London dispatch last April 29 as having said that brunettes 'in the main have more brains' than blondes...
...toward the grate to give the fire some encouragement. Swiftly he moved the screen aside, thrust the poker into the coals, put on a thick glove and tossed a fresh chunk of coal squarely into the center of the fire. He made these casual, hostly gestures with neatness and dispatch. But as he was settling again in the deep sofa, something disturbed the Prime Minister. He hopped up, shifted the fire screen one-half inch to the left...
...Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value of this collaboration." Last fall, Bishop Dutoit was seized and sent to an internment camp. It was the first official action, after the liberation, against one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. ¶ Msgr. Francois Auvity, Bishop of Mende. He recently apologized in a pastoral letter for having advised French youths...
...flabbergasted U.S. supply officer in Paris received an order: dispatch to Biarritz 25,000 copybooks, 2,500 erasers, one dozen fresh frogs, 25 two-and-a-half-ton trucks, and two salamanders "sexually highly developed." Another order reached Washington by cable: rush 300 civilian professors, first class...