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Polish, Curiosity, Comics. A cross between the London Times and James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily...
...Hour. In the dawn's early light, Bombay's police commissioner arrested Gandhi at the home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
...often interchanged parts like plates, boilers, propellers, etc., if it seemed expedient. Most Todd-Bath yards string along the Atlantic Coast, 3,000 miles from Kaiser's Pacific Coast yards. This meant long hauls for interchanged parts, delay, a steady shower of yard-to-yard wires and memoranda. Henceforth Todd communication lines will string between twelve yards instead of 16. Said Henry Kaiser, "We felt that each could do more alone...
...years, Dr. Mott has written himself frequent memoranda containing pious advice. At Cornell, for instance, Student Mott wrote: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women." His favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones...