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Three demerits to TIME. You seem to have erred in your People item of last week on Wendell Willkie: 1) by stating that Mr. Willkie is "still" the attorney for 20th Century-Fox; and 2) by the sequence in which it is made to seem that Mr. Willkie stepped into the shoes of Joseph M. Schenck after Mr. Schenck's conviction for income-tax fraud; and 3) by quoting seriously Mr. Willkie's laughing crack that Mr. Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...
Commenting on the success of the Quakers in keeping their supplies out of German hands, Jones pointed out that these men in branch offices are able to be present at the distribution of material and see that it gets into the proper hands. "No item of our food has been taken" he said...
...Gates, cats and ickies were hurt good. Longhairs took it on the puss, too. And it was a slight case of murder to the whole waxing biz. What happened was this: WPB bopped civilian use of shellac*by 70%, and shellac is the big item (15-25%) of each platter. Angle for the stab: shellac comes from India, which seems to be in quite a jam right now. Not only that, but shellac is hot stuff in war stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play...
Conferences between the F.B.I. and Northwestern's President Snyder and other University officials resulted in a virtual ultimatum to the Daily to refrain from making any comment whatever in regard to the War; as an alternative it offered a faculty censor to blue-pencil every item slated to appear. The off-shoot was a farcical situation in which the Daily began living in a vacuum, apparently oblivious of such things as Defense Stamps, War Production Boards, Panzer Divisions, and Japanese...
Please note enclosures. Face-slapping story seems to have started in Harrisburg. Item was first printed Feb. 25 in Roundabout column. Later we corrected when social editor recalled that it was kicking around in World...