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All the awards made last week carry a pension. General Eisenhower's honorary pension would amount to 20 rubles a month, officially worth $3.85, actually worth nobody knows what. The General will receive something else more substantial: a little red passbook entitling him to ride, gratis, any time, on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Bath & Suvórov | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Extracurricular Activities. "After half a century on this earth (which is all I intend to admit to . . .)," Louella Parsons has accomplished and earned as much as ten ordinary women. Besides her salary from Hearst, an estimated $750-$1,000 a week, she has been in a position to do nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Hollywood's Back Fence | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

First Sgt. Morris Isacowitz played the part of benefactor by arranging for the attendance of the entire population of Mather Hall at a Boston Brave-Cincinnati ball game on Thursday. With the grand cooperation of the Buddies' Club in Boston he was able to procure ducats gratis for all the...

Author: By Sgt. DOUGLAS D. macdonald, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

This writer suggests we make it a "staff" month. The staff could be given diplomas at a formal exercise. (It might be well if they had proof that they had at least been over the subject mater they are teaching.) And then the staff could give the ball and invite...

Author: By B. C. C. travelstead, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

The Navy Relief might be considered our own private and personal charity. For its funds are used solely and exclusively to provide for families of Navy enlisted and officer personnel who are left financially disabled as a result of a Navy casualty. The fund is administered by Naval personnel who...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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