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...professional journalist . . . must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...
...industry had reason to be proud. It had boosted its prewar sales rate of $270 million to $900 million last year, in 1948 expects to gross $1 billion for the first time in its history. The soaring wages of office help, plus the growing complexity of keeping tax, payroll deductions and other records, were driving U.S. offices to mechanize as fast as possible...
Pounds & Pence. What is it all going to cost? Britain is now paying general practitioners a total of ?45,000,000 ($180,000,000) a year. The prewar total income of G.P.s: ?28,000,000 ($112,000,000). But general practitioners are only part of John Bull's medical bill. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry and those who oppose socialized medicine are busy hurling statistics at each other. The British Dental Association claims that the plan is costing the government seven times the estimated cost for dentistry. Not so, says Bevan: the estimated ?7,000,000 ($28,000,000) will...
Musical Chairs. About 22,000 students -twice the prewar total-have crammed into the universities* in Germany's western zones. Frankfurt alone has 5,000, and 4,000 waiting to get in. Because there were not enough seats, students have had to lug their chairs from class to class. The space shortage has caused an academic revolution: in the old days, any qualified student could attend lectures for four years without showing his stuff until final examinations; today he is graded on his performance in a weekly Praktikum (quiz section), may be flunked at the end of a semester...
Before 34-year-old Frankfurt reopened in 1946, the faculty was purged of active Nazis by the American Military Government. Hallstein, a prewar law professor (at the University of Rostock) who still teaches the subject, was elected rector by his colleagues. Once a professor is approved, he is free to say what he wants (in the Russian zone, professors must submit lecture topics for Soviet O.K.). Books are so scarce that Mimeographed lecture notes sell for sky-high prices on the black market...