Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EDITOR'S NOTE...
...reference to the editor's note on why the University of Pennsylvania is not the fourth oldest university in the country,* I have but one thing to say: "Is the editor a Princeton...
...chummy note to "Lew," World Bank President Jack McCloy suggested to his brother-in-law Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, that the World Bank might provide funds for Ruhr reconstruction. But since Germany is not eligible for a World Bank loan, a way would first have to be found to get around the bank's legal restrictions...
Fleabite. In defense of the price boost, Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace struck a querulous note. He berated "the pastime or indoor sport" of blaming all economic ills on the steel industry. "Until we stop raising costs," he said, "we can't stop raising prices." Anyway, he added, the cost of steel was only "a fleabite" in the cost of living...
...hellbox, as the publishers helpfully note on the jacket, is the place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...