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...entertaining on a scale befitting an envoy of the world's richest nation. In London, Averell Harriman, who has been getting about $31,000 salary and allowance (before taxes on his salary) will now get about $65,000 a year (before taxes)-to run a show which, by prewar standards, was guesstimated to cost upwards of $100,000 a year.* His Union Pacific railroad fortune would still be a handy thing to have around the Embassy...
Another of the University's traditional prewar publications returns to the light of day today, when the CRIMSON offers for sale its first Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses since...
...size of Japanese newspaper staffs, except to be astonished at them. Tokyo's biggest paper, Asahi Shimbun ("Rising Sun Newspaper"), which has a 3,350,000 circulation, is only a two-page paper now-but has an editorial staff of 1,100, of whom 500 are reporters. Prewar Asahi had a fleet of 80 automobiles, 40 gliders, 20 airplanes. Now it is down to seven wheezy cars, and insists that one reason it needs a big staff is that its men take so long to get around. Reporters start at a meager 255 yen a month ($14), get frequent...
Basis of the treatment is the discovery that the chief dangers to a burn victim are: 1) loss of protein from burned tissues, i.e., starvation; 2) infection, usually picked up when the burns are being dressed; 3) shock. The treatment casts aside not only elaborate ointments but the standard prewar practice of debriding (scraping away) the charred skin and flesh. Specialists now recognize that most preparations doctors used to smear on burns were either a hindrance or dangerous...
William E. Knox, new president of Westinghouse Electric International Co., has a simple, realistic philosophy about foreign trade: "You can't do business with a poorhouse." Conceding that exports will boom for a while, he believes they are bound to fall off after a few years to the prewar level, or below...