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...station's present owners, who also own WNEW, have to sell because of an FCC ban on anyone's owning two stations serving the same area. But, said FCC, the would-be buyers, Brothers Murray and Meyer Mester, Brooklyn dealers in edible oils, have had brushes with the Federal Trade Commission-and other Government agencies. They had sold cottonseed oil, in containers decorated with "olive branches . . . and wording in Italian . . . for the apparent purpose of misleading buyers into thinking that the contents consisted of imported olive oil." Besides, FCC added, the Mesters had not been entirely frank with...
...this fall, with V-12 men off from the end of the examination period on October 21 to November 5, a Sunday. Civilians are due for 15 days of free time, from October 21 to November 6, on which day they will return and register for the winter tri-mester. These figures are a minimum, and do not include extra time offered by early examination schedules...
...most athletic readers in college usually, teach themselves. When Charles Summer's light was observed to burn late every night in the Harvard Yard, it was no professor, we may be sure, but an inward impulse and appetite that drove him to his long and delightful intercourse with the mester spirits of literature. --New York Times...