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Emphasizing student charities is a good idea. Each such charity will be listed as a separate item instead of receiving its funds from the Council's budget. PBH will also be listed separately instead of receiving its usual fixed percentage of the total. In case any of these do unexpectedly poorly, the Council plans to use the usually large unallocated funds as a leveling influence. The well-publicized national charities will appear as a single item at the bottom of the card. Students can fill in the particular charity they want to give...
...route to the Pacific Coast by plane, the merchandising manager of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, read a 15-line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser...
...airport, the merchandiser telephoned his home office to get in touch with the inventor and see if the needle really worked. When it came to the attention of the promotion head of A. & S., she knew exactly what the merchandising manager was talking about. She had read the identical item in TIME on the train returning from her vacation in Florida, and was equally excited about...
Amid shouts of "Vive Petain/" from the audience, Belleval denounced the proceedings as a "dishonor to France," proposed a token bid of one franc for each item on sale, so that the objects might be returned to Petain. The offer was turned down. The indignant audience burst into the Marseillaise. Fifty policemen finally cleared the hall. Once more the Marshal's belongings would gather dust. The old man would scarcely have found use for them, anyway...
...Boss. He had one meager item of consolation. The man who beat him was neither an independent, a reformer, nor a Republican upstart. He was John V. Kenny, onetime Hague lieutenant, whose own father, Eddie, had taught Frank Hague the ropes and got him his first political job as a constable more than 40 years ago. Young John Kenny became boss of the Second Ward. Then, a year ago, Hague had tossed him out because John was getting "too popular." Said Kenny frankly: "If Hague had not thrown me out, I probably would still be a member of the machine...