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Czechoslovakia's Communists had not been in full power a fortnight before their hand fell upon music. Last week, they expelled Pianist Ruda Firkusny from the syndicate of Czechoslovak composers...
Actually, because of discrepancy in spring vacations, the H-Y-P teams will not make simultaneous appearances. Rugby Week will be extended over a fortnight, beginning March 26 with the arrival of the Tiger squad...
...York City's James A. Farley, who got almost as much applause as the President did at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a fortnight ago (TIME, March I) was asked last week during a radio press interview (Mutuals Meet the Press) if he would accept a Democratic nomination as Vice President. Big Jim promptly boomed the shortest, clearest, most emphatic political statment...
...Prewar Yale tuition: $450 a year. Last fortnight Columbia raised its tuition 33⅓%, its dormitory rent, 17%. This week Colgate raised its tuition...
Doctors have no prescription that will prevent somebody from dropping an atom bomb. But they continue to worry about what medicine can do to make atomic bombing less frightful for the victims. Last fortnight, at the Navy's invitation, all kinds of doctors (civilian, Army, Navy and the U.S. Public Health Service) met in Bethesda, Md. for a two-week "indoctrination" course in atomic medicine's latest findings. When the doctors went home, they carried no cheery news with them...