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Raymond Hart went to Ypsilanti and while studying the situation there (35 stores), he worked at Willow Run for two months. When rationing of canned goods and other foods turned many a small grocer into a coupon-counting insomniac, he launched his pointless store. He shrewdly stocked an 18-by-60-ft. store with hundreds of unrationed items, included "something almost as good" for all rationed foods. For butter and oleomargarine he had apple butter, honey and tomato preserves; for meat, chicken and turkey a la king (in glass jars), fish flakes, packaged spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce; dehydrated...
...second part of the examination, the "Short Interview," is also called the "Ten Minute Interview" by students in V-1 who couldn't understand how they were sized up in so short a time with seemingly innocent and pointless questions. But far from that, the questions turn out to be quite searching, the an- swers quite revealing. The interview is divided into four categories, "Life, Work and Attitudes," "Activities," "Social Relationships," and "Emotional Traits...
...foreign correspondent, covering the A.E.F. in 1918, he outwitted military censors skillfully. Once he sent a long, inane, seemingly pointless dispatch containing, for no apparent reason, the names and home addresses of several Irish New Yorkers. Astounded at first, the Times's great Managing Editor Carr Van Anda finally realized James must be trying to say something. He sent reporters to the addresses. Soon he learned that all the men named were members of New York's great "Fighting Sixty-Ninth." Result: a Times scoop on the news that the Fighting Sixty-Ninth was going into action...
Acceleration without education is as pointless in war as in peace. If Harvard is to continue all year round study, last summer's experimental compromise should be abandoned in favor of a system which carries the methods of Harvard instruction into the summer...
...effusions of the Sweet, Swing set is eye-opening. The gulf between Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," and Miller's is immeasurable. The Ellington band's complete grasp of the spirit of the thing, its spontaneity, its "soul," if you will, make Miller's version seem pallid and pointless, which...