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...Adams, hitherto the perennial winner, took the second position with $4448.60 worth of purchases, while Winthrop with sales of $368.30 nabbed the third slot. The rest of the results were as follows: Dunster, $229.65; Eliot, $207.30; Leverett, $172.95; and Lowell; $166.90. The per capita sale was approximately...
Charlie Taft's agency proudly noted last week that 350 communities throughout the U.S. had closed their hitherto condoned houses of prostitution. Only a year ago 75% to 90% of venereal disease cases were incurred in such houses. Messrs. Taft and Parran and their committees had also persuaded most better-class hotels to keep a sharper eye on their bellboys' habit of sneaking in "call girls...
...Navy does not bend easily. But it is now up against the women. The Navy wants to enlist 70,000 women this year. Hereafter, said the Navy last week, relaxing one of its ironclad rules, WAVES, Coast Guard SPARS and Marine Reserves may marry anyone they choose. Hitherto, they had been forbidden to marry within their own branch of the service (i.e., a WAVE could marry a Coast Guardsman or a marine, but not a Navy...
...occupational patterns are being established to form a basis for tapping the large reserve of Negro labor in a score of industrial areas. With the slow realization that the home front is as important as the fighting front, employers--with a little prodding by Government agencies--are opening fields hitherto closed to the Negro. Shipbuilding, the converted automobile industry, the iron and steel plants are leaving their doors ajar, and a few Negroes are slipping in. These developments represent encouraging beginnings, but they are only beginnings. Ordnance plants and the machine tool industries have not yet erased the color line...
...Harvard squad's schedule is considerably limited this spring, but a few innovations will liven up the program. Two cross-country meets, hitherto strictly an autumn diversion, will be on the card. These hill-and-dale affairs are scheduled for March 27 and April 3, both against Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern...