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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's a unique opportunity to learn journalistic technique in a college that offers no courses in the subject. Scores of Harvard graduates go into newspaper work, and most of them get their start at 14 Plympton Street, but even if the New York Times isn't your goal, you'll learn more about writing in a CRIMSON-SERVICE NEWS eight-week competition than you'll ever pick up in English...
...news sheet tells us that Congressmen are being "troubled" by two questions from their constituents: 1) "Why isn't my Johnny getting home faster?" and 2) "Why are they drafting my Johnny, now that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
...Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an official voice told the Thompsons they could have space on the Warren Delano, bound for Constanta in Rumania-if they could report with their baggage and their papers the very next day! (Rumania isn't Russia, but this was the best offer yet, so Mrs. Thompson said okay...
...organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Everybody who talks about the postwar air age isn't going there, but the University of Southern California is. U.S.C. announced last week that it had just bought twelve battle-weary warplanes, including a Flying Fortress and a Mitchell 6-25 from the RFC (total cost: $1,900 for the planes, $2,000 to ship them). U.S.C. also rented cheap the $2 million Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, Calif. (175 miles from the U.S.C. campus in Los Angeles), complete with instructors, 50 training planes, 15 hangars, and a 200-acre airport...