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...thousand clamoring Englishwomen crowded London's small Caxton Hall. They demanded immediate transportation to the U.S. They were brides of U.S. servicemen, and they spoke for 40,000 others, all necessarily left behind in the redeployment rush. Many had babies. Many were hard up. Many were just desperately lonely. All wanted space on westbound ships...
...many a Thanksgiving Day dinner table, a returned veteran carved unrationed turkey; 159,000-odd sun-browned and sturdy servicemen were already back home for good, and more were coming. And Canada had money in the bank. It had a job well done to look back upon, a bright future ahead. The war had been expensive ($15,210,394,166 to March 31, 1945), but the dividend was a vastly increased productivity. Canada had been spared the ghastly ruin that befell the nations of Europe. And, unlike Europe, Canada this year would not be tormented by want of food...
...municipally owned New York City Symphony for the first time, after only one week of rehearsals. He had replaced more than half of the musicians inherited from Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Now there was only one slightly bald head in the whole orchestra. There were twelve ex-servicemen. The orchestra thumped its way through Brahms's Second Symphony, which Brahms wrote at 44. But critics liked best young Conductor Bernstein's version of Shostakovich's First Symphony-which Shostakovich wrote...
Margaret Truman began her Senior year at George Washington University (with Secret Servicemen for escorts on the daily trip from home). Major: history. Courses: international relations, Pan-American problems, Far Eastern governments, modern European history, 19th-and 20th-century American and European...
More than 3,000 servicemen have said they hoped to become Protestant ministers. To guide them, the Federal Council of Churches has set up a sort of vocational-guidance unit, Commission on the Ministry. The Commission's aim is to raise the general level of the Protestant ministry -all denominations - by helping the churches to select candidates who are as occupationally fit as they are willing. In future, it will borrow the tactics of big business and use talent scouts to pick the most promising young men from each year's crop of college graduates. Hardest...