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...strictly a woman's magazine. Born in the '90s, it was at first a thin, snobbish weekly beamed at socialites and full of socialite-weight stuff. One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?" For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed...
Even Businessman Jesse Jones joined the Army & Navy in opposing renegotiation after taxes. Their grounds: 1) it would make the Government pay industry's taxes, in effect, 2) would fail to distinguish between the profit that industry deserves on its own investment and what it should get on the investment of public funds (as in the case of Government-built factories). All Government witnesses, including the Treasury, came out flat-footed against allowing postwar reserves as a cost item in war contracts. Their reasons: 1) existing tax laws already allow for some postwar reconversion cost...
...heard, and what he thinks about it, makes a bulky (544 pages), jumbled, fact-crammed book. * It is good reading and worth reading; it is a believable account of real viciousness, relieved by fragments of pure absurdity. Smart readers will make allowances for Investigator Carlson's enthusiasms, distinguish for themselves between stooges and stars...
...boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
...small and black and white and looked lonely in a distinguish sort of way, as it wandered confusedly among the long tables in the Kirkland House dining hall...