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...Duchin, Eddy Prod., Inc. (jazz...
...addition, Mr. Mitchell got to be something of an amateur magician. Last week it was revealed that in future Publisher Mitchell will have all the time he wishes to devote to architecture, music and prestidigitation. Control of his magazine was shifted to an editorial group who planned to prod Pathfinder along a new journalistic trail...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...years ago when the radical American Student Union tried to prod U.S. high-school and college students out of their classrooms for an hour to protest against war, only 25,000 students responded. Last year the Union held a second strike, rallied 200,000 strikers. With better organization and a European crisis at hand, an estimated 500,000 student strikers last week observed the third Peace Day. While the Emergency Peace Committee was imparting to the occasion a religious flavor (see p. 32), the student Peace Day gave signs of turning into a full-sized and characteristically noisy national institution...
When the new tax took effect last week only 1,873 of the 15,000 U. S. bituminous coal producers had signed the code but they accounted for almost one half the nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...