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Princeton University was playing Santa Claus last week to its 1,300 students who left the campus to join the U.S. Armed Forces. To each went the offer of a packet of three books (free), to be chosen from a list of 70. Princeton informed its servicemen that the books were "inexpensive editions, chosen for their compactness . . . not . . . Princeton's 'three-inch shelf' of the 'world's best authors.' Some . . . hardly wear a cap and gown. But we think there is good reading, as well as entertainment, among them...
...homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest of ?297-$1,188) on a trip to Vienna. She wants to hear The Blue Danube "played at the source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets a celluloid-collared washing-machine inventor from Yorkshire with plenty of British brass and some neolithic French and German ("Swy tay, bitta").* The flying Yorkshireman deserts her for a floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful...
Early Tuesday morning the pages of this issue were set up in type in Philadelphia. A camera crew was on hand to make photo graphic negatives of each page as fast as the last proofs could be corrected. A 39-ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...
...seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain to hold it against a mob of rivals When he had lost the last garment, he burst into tears of rage, drove his horse & cart full tilt into the crowd...
...With one packet of the Consolazio-Spealman chemicals, a man in a life raft can produce a quart of drinking water in half an hour. The Navy announced that the device was ready to go into mass production as standard life-raft equipment as soon as it passes final tests by Army & Navy doctors...