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...trips to Wellesley, and red-rimmed eyes that are a consequence of this misunderstanding are many and unnecessary. Unnecessary because the Bureau can quite demonstrably help the undergraduate to run through his average study problems like a hot knife through margarine. This fact is important because many men unknowingly employ hideously inept study methods, but achieve moderately good marks through huge outlays of study time. Such stumblers in the dark, as well as grade-hawks, may find it interesting that the marks of 8 out of 10 men rise after their exposure to Bureau methods, and that reading speeds...
...Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...
...three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...
...nationwide strike deemed necessary by the telephone workers, contrasted with the satisfactory contracts concluded in the steel and automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
...make increasingly difficult the founding of new newspapers, the government should enter the picture in a limited capacity. Anti-trust laws must be used to ensure real competition. The present libel laws must be made more effective in protecting persons injured by false statements. Going further, the government should employ mass communications media of its own where necessary to inform the people at home and in foreign countries of its policies and purposes...