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Spurred by its first successful invasion of the fiction field, Prentice-Hall kicked over the traces of promotional conservatism. It spent some $12,000 on corny ads, handouts (see cut), and a crosscountry autographing jaunt for Author Rosamond Marshall...
Cutting through the indecision of the past months, President Truman has issued a clear call for action to alleviate Europe's food crisis. For the observer who has watched with increasing frustration the various emergency meetings, the extended world jaunt of Herbert Hoover, and the utter failure to act, this comes as a welcome appeal. For the member of the University it is more than an appeal, it is a challenge to express in deed his concepts of idealism...
...associate professor of History, who spent six months in Italy and some time in Washington with the OSS.FRANCIS THOW SPAULDING '16, dean of the Graduate School of Education, will return to Cambridge tomorrow for a conference with other members of the School prior to leaving for another overseas jaunt. Director of the U. S. Armed Forces Institute, which has given correspondence courses to G. l.s during the war, Dean Spaulding has made three visits to European military schools and is now slated to go to the Pacific. He is not expected to return to Harvard until next fall...
...Next jaunt was a 75-mile trip to Mount Rainier. Mist hung low as the President's car moved up through the foothills, crossed a river at the foot of Nisqually Glacier. But as he drove higher between high snow walls, the sun came out and the 14,000-ft. peak above them hung dazzling white against a blue mountain sky. At Paradise Valley, 5,400 feet above sea level, the President threw snowballs, stared at the heights through glasses, went into sprawling Paradise Inn to play a few pieces on the piano...
Into the White House last Week to report to Harry Truman, went three globetrotters. They had been given what no other civilians have got in this war; a free round-the-world trip in Army planes, with high priority to go when & where they pleased-on a jaunt that had nothing to do with winning...