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...lies in "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies. And frequently this solitude was creative. From it some times came the dreams, the hopes and the soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless associations the young flock like cattle. The fee they...
Though Stolkin. Koolish and Ryan keep their big stock interests in RKO, Board Chairman Arnold Grant, who insisted on the resignations, said that henceforward they would be considered "no more, no less than ordinary stockholders." Grant hopes to fill the empty posts quickly "with men of outstanding caliber." They will have to be outstanding to pull RKO out of its present troubles. The company, said Grant, is losing money at the rate of $100,000 a week; he expects to get it into the black in two years...
...accounts as they stood in mid-1943, the Churchillian prose rolls with the old indomitable diapason: "The entry of the United States into the struggle . . . had made it certain that the cause of Freedom would not be cast away. But between survival and victory there are many stages . . . Henceforward . . . the danger was not Destruction but Stalemate [yet] the hinge had turned...
Climbers. In Detroit, the American Collectors Association announced at its annual convention that henceforward bill collectors would prefer to be known as "adjusters of delinquent obligations...
...this true at Yale? There are two reasons. The first is the appointment policy followed by the Prudential Committee, the standing committee of the Yale Corporation, in the one case in which the facts are known: no card-carrying or de facto Communists will henceforward be admitted to the Yale faculty. The young graduate students and faculty men put it a different way: "There will be no witch-hunts at Yale (quoted from President Charles Seymour), because there will be no witches." What worries the young men is how far the Prudential Committee intends to go with this policy...