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Methods and organization of Air Raid Precautions in Great Britain were discussed last night by Dr. John E. Gordon, director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital in Salisbury, England, Dr. Gordon who has just returned to America, spoke at a regular meeting of the University ARP course in Emerson Hall, telling of his experiences in bombing raids...
Junior Miss (adapted from Sally Benson's stories by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields; produced by Max Gordon). Last season Adapters Chodorov & Fields turned Ruth McKenney's My Sister Eileen stories into a gay comedy about youth which is still running on Broadway. Last week they had turned Sally Benson's Junior Miss stories into a gay comedy about adolescence which should still be on Broadway a year from now. For its characters are kids at once harum-scarum and "nice," and it mirrors the kind of middle-class family life which huge audiences chuckle...
Canada has had a price-control apparatus for two years, but only last month (TIME, Oct. 27) did it get power, and only last week did it get a Leon Henderson. To the chairmanship of the Wartime Prices & Trade Board went a dynamic, burly, black Celt, Donald Gordon...
...gangling boy when he arrived in Canada from his native Scotland in 1914, Donald Gordon was the Dominion's youngest (19) bank inspector six years later. In 1935 Graham Towers, Governor of the new Bank of Canada, picked him as its secretary; he became deputy governor at 37. Little known then outside banking circles, he set up the bank's smooth-working foreign-exchange control system, became a powerful figure in Canada's wartime economic councils...
...keep down prices by Hendersonesque "jaw control," imposed an overall, Baruch-type ceiling on wages and prices. Based on maximums for the weeks Sept. 15-Oct. 11, it starts Dec. 1. Last week, on the eve of the new decree's effectiveness, Canada heard tough talk from Donald Gordon, no longer shy and gangling (he is 6 ft. 3 in., 233 lb.). Warned he: "Rather than allow retail prices to rise, the prices of wholesalers and manufacturers must be reduced. Price control is going to be made effective. . . . You cannot compromise with inflation...