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...been working 15 hours a day to clean off his desk. In & out of Harold Stassen's deep-carpeted office in the State Capitol went men on last-minute business: legislators, businessmen, labor leaders, Republican bigwigs. Harold Stassen listened to all of them, between interruptions plugged away at humdrum details. On the floor above the Legislature dragged to a close...
Heads Down. The Labor Party is in humdrum contrast. It has only a few able men, a lukewarm, badly battered Socialist program. Labor's representation in the House consists mostly of ultraconservative unionists, of the type which long ago inspired the crack, "Commons is Labor's House of Lords...
First Tasks. To have human value, to get down to the ordinary business of ordinary life, to fill the routines of plowing and planting and the humdrum tasks of every day with a spirit that will make them conscious efforts to create a better destiny, the ideas must result in programs, and the programs must be fulfilled by living, sweating, striving, imperfect and hopeful people. The ideas and ideals strong enough to rebuild the old world and remake the new cannot be the special province of planners and experts. They must be general enough to cross frontiers and local enough...
...congenial atmosphere for November hours studying, Library officials continue to do nothing about opening Boylston Reading Room. This attitude is not new, University officials have long been famous for their charming smiles. But any advisor will tell his Freshman that November hour time is not the season for humdrum. And this year's crop of Freshmen are minus both Boylston Reading Room and the Union Library...
...want to thank TIME for bringing us something besides the humdrum news of war, the fight for production, and self-sacrifice. These little success stories just buoy us up, make suffering easier, and make it all worth fighting...