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...waited for two hours for the return from Paris of Hitler's No. 1 French servant. Laval came heavily guarded in a fast, dark limousine followed by two police cars. He got out quickly, rushed up the steps and through the revolving doors of the Hotel du Pare. Not a sound came from the crowd. They were not there to pay tribute. They were there out of morbid curiosity. They, like millions of other Frenchmen, could guess what final cruelties and betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure...
Meanwhile, the regular Army had already begun to pare its hangnails. Last week the War Department announced that 170 regular officers had been recommended for removal by a secret board of five general officers. Sixty-six, facing a hearing, applied for retirement of their own accord...
...indigestible truth which neither Mr. Morgenthau nor the Congressmen were ready to chew: the fact that the Government, while ready to ask citizens for sacrifices, was not yet ready to make any sacrifices of its own. The budget of many a department for 1942 had been ostentatiously pared -about as deeply as a man is apt to pare his fingernails. Although labor shortages have begun to appear in many an industry, the Administration had made no commitments to reduce relief expenditures, is still spending for relief at the rate of about $100,000,000 a month...
...difference leading to a first rate orchestra. But this is just the beginning of the big weekend. Most Freshmen want to invite a girl from back home, and that means at least an $8 hotel bill. By a very simple method used in practically every other college, Harvard can pare this item to the bone. If every man in one of the halls could be persuaded to move out for the weekend, free accommodations for the girls could be arranged. It is hoped that no Freshman would stand upon his constitutional rights and insist upon remaining in his rnom...
...blue-eyed, husky, apple-cheeked giant of a man, Robert Joseph Flaherty will be 57 this month but he has not finished his work. In 1939 another master of documentaries, Pare Lorentz, who made The River and The Plow That Broke the Plains for the U. S. Government, cabled Flaherty an invitation to film The Land for AAA. In the past 18 months Producer Flaherty has traveled some 20,000 miles about the U. S., making pictures on soil erosion. The Land will be completed this spring...