Word: prewar
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...Pescara results, crowed triumphantly: "The Front has shown itself to be an instrument capable of drawing together and organizing all Italians without difference of class. . . ." Following up their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling in Italian affairs; the threat of involvement...
...House system was supposed to fill this gap and in prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat together religiously, not because they had the slightest thing in common (which was evidenced by their conversation) but because they happened by mere chance to be thrown together as roommates and, knowing no one else, formed themselves into a little group of fellow sufferers. On rare occasion I have seen these...
...prices down for the benefit of his big, pound-pinched British trade, asked 54,000 francs ($176 at the new free exchange rate) for a simple black afternoon dress, while Dior's simplest day dress was 62,000 francs ($202). But materials were finally getting back to prewar standards. Sighed Molyneux's directress: "So marvelous to know the customers won't come back screaming the day after a heavy rain...
Burning Mortgages. Fraternity memberships, like university enrollments, are at an alltime high-in most cases, nearly double prewar. This fat income has put the fraternities in the black, many for the first time in years. The heartening aroma of burning mortgages drifts up from Fraternity Rows all over the nation. At the University of California at Los Angeles, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter was 13 years ahead on its mortgage payments. The University of Southern California's Phi Kappa Psis had just dedicated a new $120,000 house. University of Michigan fraternities were overflowing into nearby rooming-house "annexes...
Before the war, singles were among the higher priced rooms in the college, rating above doubles by reason of privacy and greater floor area per man. The Housing Office is continuing a high rent on converted singles even though both prewar advantages have been swept away. It further believes that by adding $40 to the prewar rent for each new man and dividing by the total number of men, it has a sure-cure for injustice in the doubling process. Examination indicates both assumptions to be wrong...