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...years in the heavily Catholic western prairies of the state, wherever school boards couldn't find or couldn't afford other teachers, nuns have been filling the gaps. Their salary (paid by the taxpayers): about $1,000 a year. North Dakota Protestants, who outnumber Catholics about four to one, took the issue to the state's supreme court in 1936, contending that the hiring of nuns violated the separation of church and state. The court decided that the wearing of religious garb did not constitute religious teaching...
...Catholic faith signed up 38,000 servicemen during the war. Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...
Anna and her husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...
...first published in Horizon. Editor Cyril Connolly devoted the entire February issue of the highbrow British literary monthly to Waugh's short novel. This smart devotion paid off. Horizon for February was sold out in a week...
...Which makes miners the highest-paid U.S. industrial workers: an average of $1.98 an hour...