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Professor Emery draws for his discussion from a supply of first-hand observations made during a recent trip to Palestine. He received his M.A. degree here in 1921 and his Ph.D. in 1924. He holds an honorary...
...mayor whose Republican (and that really dates it!) sanctity is injured by rumors about the life of one of his nieces whom he has permitted to go to New York unaccompanied. Said candidate, with his wife and the niece's sister, journey to the big city to get some first-hand information. Niece number one manages successfully to conceal the fact that she has been singing and swinging in a Bowery night club for her keep, then makes good her boast of being with the Metropolitan, with the aid of her boss and manager, J. Durante, and the new routine...
...dangerous life and breathless escapes, leading them on hazardous sabotage expeditions until, by the time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets of stolen automobiles and motorcycles. But if Millar organized as well as he writes...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
...prepared to answer as many as possible of your questions by first-hand reports. Information-expert Irene Burbank wore out two pairs of rationed shoes sightseeing every sight around New York herself. For example, she has taken the three-hour boat trip around Manhattan and can even tell you just how much poetic license was involved in describing the seats as "luxury liner deck chairs." She has also tested on her own palate and nerves the fare and entertainment of just about every eating place and night club in New York...