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Since, by Government order, no paper which published with German permission could reopen, only five of Paris' prewar dailies are still in business. Their successors - there were twelve on Liberation Day, 31 now - are skimpy, cautious, color less. Some (the best: Combat, Franc-Tireur, Resistance) came up from the underground, and are mainly leftist and critical of De Gaulle. Newer dailies are mostly rightist, 100% pro-De Gaulle...
...universities were in even worse shape. The once-handsome campus of the University of the Philippines was a shell-pocked wreck. Santo Tomás University, which had housed civilian war prisoners during the occupation, managed to reopen its law, education, commerce and liberal arts colleges, but most of its halls were filled with hospital beds. Luzon's small private colleges, which once had 22,000 students, reopened with only skeleton courses for their few thousand registrants...
...ironies of war, the National Gallery passed through the frightful destruction of the blitz and robomb years with only one gallery (No. 26) damaged. Far harder hit were the British Museum, whose Greek and Roman rooms were destroyed by incendiaries in 1941, and the Tate Gallery, which will not reopen for six months...
...order to complete arrangements, ticket sales will be suspended over the weekend except for V-12 and NROTC tonight. General sales will reopen on Monday and tickets will be available from 10 to 5 o'clock at the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street. The price of the tickets will be increased only in the amount of a fifty cent War Savings Stamp. As before the sales will be limited to three hundred couples...
...important gold and copper mining industries were badly hurt. Mining machinery will be needed. Mining men fear that many shafts in the mines have caved in, would be costly to reopen...