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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...bestseller lists, said S.R.L., reporting bookstores are not weighted as to sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list...
Last week Sell moved into Town & Country, moved out De Gunzburg's desk ("I never use one"), and drew up a list of employees to be fired. Sell intends to keep Town & Country "a magazine for people of means and taste." but thinks that a stronger staff will show there are at least 100,000 of them instead of the 50,000 who now buy the magazine. Says he: "I'm very happy to be back. It's like an opening-as if I were an actor, which of course I am. Last night at the Colony...
...Attention is called to the fact that every undergraduate not on the Dean's List is required under the conditions explained below to attend his last college exercise before and his first college exercise after the April recess. The recess will be from Monday, April 4 to Saturday, April 9, inclusive...
Perhaps even more important than the rank list unfairness is the way the system affects one's final record transcript. This transcript is one of the essential factors in admission to graduate schools which, like the Scholarship Committee, will not even consider men below a certain academic group. The important signs, plus and minus, are ruthlessly excised by the Registrar's 1BM machine so that the student's scholastic picture consists of a set of solitary alphabet noodles without the soup...