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...joint House Committee, which was recently swelled by the entrance of the officers of the Naval Society, has been at work making plans for an all-unit smoker, to be held on November 17, week of the Boston College football game. Such a smoker was included in the prospectus for V-12 activities when the group was originally established...
Transatlantic's 64-page debut fell short of the prospectus. Author Van Doren's discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...
This willingness to shoulder the responsibility for our statements still seems to surprise many of our readers -but it stems back to TIME'S original prospectus, which promised to try and tell TIME'S subscribers all the news of all the world each week-and to write that news as if by one man for one man. It seems to us that this promise pledges TIME to tell you all the important news TIME knows itself. And so once TIME'S editors have become satisfied that a thing is true-that it is significant and that...
Perhaps the best thing I can do is just to quote a few paragraphs from TIME'S original prospectus and to reaffirm our faith in the journalistic concepts and ideals on which TIME started...
Aware of the limitations of shipping space, the prospectus is cautious as to what the U.S. can give Brazil now in the way of machine tools which Brazil needs if she is to increase her industrial output immediately. But in terms of the future the prospectus goes the limit-provided that Brazil can get from the U.S. one priceless intangible: technical skill and know-how; and one tangible: capital equipment. How she is to get these two things, and whether her development will involve American private enterprise or will be a huge Government project, Engineer Cooke leaves extremely vague...