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Hatless Sirs: TIME, Dec. 2 : "... Slump brought on primarily by feminine hatlessness." Understatement ! Rather: ''Slump brought on primarily by feminine hat designers." A woman, I, hatless, prefer not to be caught alive in many of the hats offered...
...Army 6,500,000 man-days (time lost in hospitals). Military police patrol towns as best they can, mark the most putrid spots "out of bounds." Military medicos provide soldiers with oral caution beforehand, treatment afterward, encourage local authorities to provide free prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that Congress make prostitution within 15 miles of Army and Navy...
Like most identical twins, Freda & Ida talk as one person, in a continuous flow of words. Sample: "(Ida) People have always tried to separate us, but we prefer to be together. (Freda) We seem to be sympathetic types; there is something we get from one another. (Ida) Besides it really increases our production, people think we are bears for work because we do two pictures while someone else does one. (Freda) We are really very prolific...
...pointers on how to keep their own classes awake. For accuracy Mr. Dallwig checks his scripts, which he whips up evenings during the week, with the museum's learned curators. To keep his voice in trim, he gives up smoking during the 30-week season. He used to prefer being known simply as the "Layman Lecturer," but emerged from anonymity in a hurry after hearing that a woman in his group referred to him as that "wonderful Mr. Layman...
Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans (later George Eliot) was one of the homeliest women who ever wrote a first-rate English novel. She was also one of the most affectionate. For many years she looked for a man who would prefer character to beauty and in Publisher John Chapman she thought she had found him. This episode, overlooked by John W. Cross in his official Life of George Eliot, was resuscitated last fortnight to the delight of literary gossips when Chapman's diaries were published with a lively, 119-page introduction by Gordon S. Haight...