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With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...
After Rangoon, the battle for Burma was a struggle to keep the Japs in the south, at the river mouths. In the spring, the south is a grey, heat-beaten land, where only the rivers are cool and even the wide rice paddies gape with cracks in the baking earth. It is a time when prudent men, fools, even Englishmen stay out of the midday sun. But the Japs fought in the sun, and drove the British steadily up the Irrawaddy and Sittang valleys. Then the Chinese came down from the north...
...room was hot and tempers hotter. The Justice Department was conducting a drive along the lines of its Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered...
Nevertheless, the article will probably not make as good an impression of Yassar and Wellesley as the undergraduate body had hoped. The Harvard man in Life's interpretation doesn't do much more in a day's work than smile through a cordial bull-session and gape at the Eliot House Tower. A more virile portrayal would have been preferable. There should have been a shot of the football squad or the crew licking Yale, to remind our public that we can do it. Or, failing this, the magazine could have casually slipped in a few views of a brawny...
Republican Philadelphia enjoyed its gape at a U. S. President, but was not so excited over Candidate Franklin Roosevelt. Neither were the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania (see p. 43), whom he addressed in Convention Hall where Wendell Willkie had been nominated. Like Willkie's, his applause came mostly from the galleries. But Mr. Roosevelt had come to address the nation, not the visible audience...