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...melodramatic sneak-trip to North Africa (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942)-are going to the Smithsonian Institution. The General's wife, who will present them, reported in Pittsburgh that they had been rescued from an African beach and ultimately returned to the General, who discovered they had shrunk and sent them home...
...civilian population has shrunk 2.4%. Reason: so many citizens have put on uniforms. Checking up between April 1940 and March 1943, the Census Bureau found that the overall U.S. civilian population had dropped from 131,300,000 to 128,200,000. Biggest slump was in New York (4.9%). Biggest jump (27.5): the District of Columbia...
...chorus of Something For the Boys, Broadway musical comedy, stared dumfounded at their tax-shrunk salaries (normally $45 to $50 a week). They promptly demanded raises. Turned down, they gave the theater management a huffy two weeks' notice. Said sorrowful Producer Michael Todd: "The kids thought [the tax] was very unfair. I told them I couldn't do anything about it. ..." But by week's end he had prevailed on them to go on working, even if it did mean working part of the time for Uncle...
...world three-quarters ocean, unpotable, in hospitable and deadly to men; the dark masses of land are still as large, the stony mountains still as high, the myriad populations still as strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...
Stunned in a similar manner by the student shortage Yale has announced that its undergraduate ranks are shrunk to a figure of about 2000 men who are registered for the spring term. Of these 2000 some 200 will probably be withdrawn from the enrollment of the school by the end of next month...