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...President had a little work to do. He signed the rent-control bill (a stopgap extension to April 1) and a bill continuing the Government's authority to operate merchant vessels...
...most notable among urban intellectuals and college students. (Wellesley girls were told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...been laid off or put on part time. "Popular"-priced dress manufacturers reported that their clothes were not popular at all. They blamed the "unreasonable" prices charged at the mills for their cloth. But many mills reported that they were booked solidly through June. Nevertheless, many a merchant thought that high-priced textiles were as shaky as high-priced grain had been...
Fool's Silver. Albina Rodriguez had shocked her family and friends by marrying Simon Patino, son of a Spanish-Indian cobbler. Simon, the underpaid clerk of a German merchant, promptly got fired and had to make good on a $250 credit he had advanced to a prospector who had found, not silver, but "worthless" tin in the Andes...
...oldest Protestant church" in western Christendom celebrated a centennial last week. In 1179 a rich Lyons merchant named Peter Waldo took a vow of poverty and defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible on his own. Excommunicated as a heretic, Waldo fled to the hills with his followers. For nearly 700 years the Waldenses held out against papal persecution in the valleys of the Cottian Alps. A hundred years ago they were granted religious freedom. But their centennial found today's Waldenses still worried about their status under Italy's present government...