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...side, of the desk. There he would find an electric refrigerator with three ice trays, a cabinet for bottles, decanters and glasses, a personal combination-lock safe. Properly fortified, the executive could return to the "business" side and to the desk's most dazzling feature: a magnetized pen holder. The executive need only place his pen close to the holder, let go and the magnet would suck the pen into place in the holder...
Mystical Hard Heads. Sir George F. MacLeod, Bart, was a Winchester-and Oxford-educated captain in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums...
While most of the paper work is being handled by the University veterans office, former servicemen will have to fill out a Form 1950 to get tuition aid and subsistence payments, an address card to have service records sent to the local V.A. office, and a card entitling the holder to purchase books at government expense. Married veterans will have to present a suitable copy of their marriage certificates to obtain the additional subsistence they are entitled...
Peroy, French-born University fencing coach, came to America in 1909 at the age of 23, already the holder of a Parisian foils title. While working in New York City, he took all honors from novice to senior, at the New York Amateur Fencing Club, in less than a year...
...plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget. Viewed through its wooden lorgnette-style holder, special, double photographs looked solidly three-dimensional, and entertained the young & old on dull Sunday afternoons. Last week the Navy announced that it was perfecting an improvement: a single photograph which appears three-dimensional without benefit of "viewer...