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But even now, with two files, we have complications. For example: our military files are loaded with 4,800 Smiths, 3,200 Johnsons, 1,800 Joneses, 180 Goldbergs, 22 MacArthurs, and 23 Halseys (ten of them in the Navy). Furthermore, there are 246 Robert Smiths, 108 William Johnsons, 83 Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Naval Science puts its members through a four year course, ordinarily, with a commission at the end. Designed to produce deck officers, the course emphasizes seamanship, navigation, gunnery, and communications. Students enroll for a four year stretch, and the present crop will all finish their college courses and must got...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES, TOO PRECARIOUSLY CIVILIAN, DRILL, PREPARE TO ENTER INTO ARMED SERVICES | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Yeats went to France and "talked of marriage" to Maud Gonne, but it was clear that Maud was "far more interested in securing a passport to Ireland to work for the prisoners." He proposed then, and then again, to her exquisite daughter Iseult. H. decided, at length, to marry his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1865-1939 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

* The need for tartaric acid is serious for munitions, baking powder, synthetic silk, photographic materials, candy. The U.S. requires at least 15,000,000 Ib. annually. Foreign sources of argols and lees (crusts and dregs) of winery wastes are cut off.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Vistas for Chemists | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

It's about time, however, that someone came out and gave Mildred her due. Downbeat and Metronome give her a kind word now and then, taking her for granted most of the time. The more csoteric jazz magazines ignore her completely. As a result, the rising generation of jazz lovers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 11/12/1942 | See Source »

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