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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...
Frozen Feet. In the summer, the sun beat down on the school's tin roof, the pine boards sweated resin, and the smaller pupils dropped off to sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
...stocks, and the chances for profits were thus lessened, could Americans be expected to start looking for more profitable enterprises abroad. In addition, said Istel, foreign investors face currency difficulties, "run the risk of not being able to repatriate [their] capital," for the chance of profits which are smaller than in the U.S. It was "not surprising" that since the end of the war, private international finance has been almost nonexistent. Said Istel: "The game is not worth the candle...
...most anxious to have their sons win their degrees (only one out of 100 think they should "do something else" besides going to college). But more than two-thirds of the farmers and wage earners in the survey also want a college education for their sons. A smaller majority (56%) think it would be a pretty good idea for the U.S. Government to start passing out federal scholarships to send "qualified" youngsters who "otherwise couldn't afford...
...shrewdly watching & waiting to see whether RCA's 45 r.p.m. or Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record would win the battle on retail counters. Last week, convinced that it was getting in on "the biggest possible market," Decca lined up with Columbia. With 15 smaller recorders already making 33⅓ r.p.m. LP records, Decca's decision meant that Columbia had just about...