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Ohio's progressive Antioch College believes that education is where you find it. Its students work at textbooks half the year, take jobs approved by the professors for the other half. Nelda Sloan, 18 and a student in journalism, got her Antioch-approved job as a $22-a-week copy boy on the Philadelphia Record, and joined the American Newspaper Guild. Ten days later the Guild struck the Record. Last week Freshman Nelda was in her sixth week on the picket line. Antioch assured her that her picketing would be counted toward her credits...
...World as lovely as a daydream and as weirdly frightening as a nightmare, painted it with wideawake precision and detail. Last week their historically priceless pictorial reporting, long scattered and out of print, was reissued in one of 1946's handsomest books (The New World, Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...story, cites it as an indication that many doctors favor "mercy killing" in extreme cases. Last week the society started a widely backed drive to make euthanasia legal. It announced that 1,500 New York doctors and 54 eminent clergymen (among them: Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloan Coffin, Riverside Church's Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick) had joined in sponsoring a euthanasia bill which they hope to get introduced in the New York State Legislature...
Back in 1945 Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. proudly announced that General Motors' postwar expansion, likely to cost $500 million, would be paid for "out of general corporate resources." G.M. had $596 million in cash and Government securities for the job. Last week G.M.'s wad was so close to being shot that the company announced it would soon try to raise $100 million by floating a million new shares of preferred stock. G.M.'s cash on hand had fallen to $160 million (see chart), and this only three months after G.M. had borrowed $125 million...
...Elliott Roosevelt-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...