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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike our editors, who came from all over the U.S., a majority of TIME's researchers grew up in the Eastern states and abroad. Naturally, the colleges and universities they went to (85% got degrees) are largely Eastern -Vassar, Smith, Barnard, Skidmore, etc. Those educated in other countries list the universities of Geneva, Toronto, British Columbia, and Istanbul's Robert College. About a fourth of them went on to graduate school...
...voting list was the census. That excluded Labrador's several hundred white stationers who go down north from Newfoundland every summer to live in frame and moss tilts and fish inshore, also the 1,200 summer floaters who fish from vessels offshore. Only the 4,000 year-around white livyers (meaning live here) and the 1,500 Eskimos, half-breeds, Nascopie and Montagnais Indians could vote...
Marcia (The Valley of Decision) Davenport spoke up to complain of the occupational hazards of authorship. Leading her list of 22 complaints: constipation, headache, backache, eyeache, nerves, ill-timed insomnia and somnolence, gas and hips...
Faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students not residing in College buildings, who were contacted by mail, did not receive their letters until yesterday at the earliest, and results of the mailing-list solicitations will not be known for some time...
...folder describing the work of the Committee, the list of "food that your five dollars will buy" should include, in addition to the other items, two pounds of powdered milk, which costs 96 cents...