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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...
...L'Epoque, a usually staid Paris daily, hazarded a political revelation. A cat, it charged, was carried on the budget of the Bibliotheque Nationale, France's vast and ponderous national library. The cat, maintained by the library to discourage rats from gnawing the bindings, was said by L'Epoque to have died recently after giving birth to kittens and had been circumspectly replaced by a male...
...sure of the new cat's sex; 2) with the lady manager of the canteen, who refused to become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance was 30 francs (60?) a year...
...Brookings Institution in Washington; 2) Forest Ray Moulton, 73, Ph.D., LL.D., twice Sc.D., secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 3) Elton J. Moulton, 57, M.A., Ph.D., onetime dean of the graduate school and now head of the mathematics department at Northwestern University; 4) Earl L. Moulton, 66, onetime public-school teacher and now president of two companies; and 5) Vernon V. Moulton, president of an insurance company and a trustee of Albion College...
...unions have long conceded that World War II servicemen's time in service should be counted in figuring their seniority in their peacetime jobs. At its Chicago convention last November, C.I.O. also agreed to waive initiation fees for veterans and to protect their seniority. Most A.F. of L. unions have done the same, and for the same reason: labor wants veterans as union members, not as opponents. But this does not mean that labor, to whom seniority is as vital as private property is to business, is not ready to fight for the seniority rights of its members...