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...opinion of the War Department, mail ranks second only to food as a buck-you-uppo for morale. On ration trains, mail goes to the troops right along with food. But cargo space is priceless. Last week the War Department, taking a tip from the British, decided to speed mail deliveries by photographing batches of letters on microfilm and flying them to world-scattered bases. There the letters, to be known as "V-Mail," will be turned into enlarged prints before delivery...
...priceless donations were added to the University's treasure collection Saturday evening at the dedication ceremonies of the Houghton Library...
...Barnes also reminded the Senators that Todd had been carrying its yards and developing its now priceless know-how for 25 years without any help from the Navy...
...citizens we gratefully acknowledge a priceless national heritage of freedom and democratic ideals for which earlier generations struggled and sacrificed. We cherish this heritage more deeply when we see it attacked by a totalitarian threat. We are resolved to defend it from the menace of rival systems from without and from the degradation of abuse or neglect from within...
Busiest museum director in the U.S. last week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks...