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...have reached a pretty pass when judges recommend that undefended cases should be dealt with by magistrates' courts. The only preventive for divorce is to make it more difficult. Young and thoughtless people would not rush into marriage if they knew it was very difficult to untie the knot and . . . many tiffs would be composed if the partners knew a divorce was hard to get and a disgrace...
...Washington. One knot of the tangle was in Washington. Tall, dark, earnest Dr. Enrique Lozada, "Head of the Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen...
...mushrooming U.S. merchant marine (50 million tons in 1944) is about to add a new and useful type of vessel-a small (4,000 ton), fast (12 knot), and economical (diesel-powered) freighter...
...between midnight and dawn, a scouting U.S. destroyer force intercepted six Jap light cruisers or de stroyers in the waters northwest of Bougainville. Two of the surprised enemy were quickly dispatched by torpedoes. The remainder turned stern in a welter of American shellfire. Hard-driving Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke...
Your great article on Thomas Edmund Dewey (TIME, Nov. 1) is so good, so unbiased, so illuminating it will make most people think, who have been groping for the right candidate on the Republican ticket. We feel that you have unraveled the knot and that Tom Dewey might be our next President if he could be drafted...