Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joe needs money for his projects, he drops into Dallas and makes a little speech at one of the service clubs. He always comes back with $25 or $50. He has a few special contributors, among them a policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds...
...Telltale Heart. Over the objections of Dr. Prinzmetal, who refused to talk to the Hearst reporter because he thinks lay publicity unethical, the Journal-American gave him special treatment. The story also appeared as an eight-column box on Page One in Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner. But neither Hearst-paper said anything about what every doctor (and several reporters) realized when they saw the film. The photographed hearts were the hearts of animals. To make the films, Dr. Prinzmetal and fellow researchers at Los Angeles Cedars of Lebanon Hospital had experimented on 65 dogs. Rabid old antivivisectionist Hearst...
...charities of Europe and Asia and to find a place in the world for thousands of displaced persons. The means: a single, hour-long radio program to be broadcast on Saturday, March 26 (10-11 p.m.) over all the stations of at least three major networks, followed by a special collection in 76,000 churches the next morning...
...with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will string along (they control fares on the North Atlantic through the International Air Transport Association). Such a cut would put it well under first-class steamer rates...
...Student Council will held its second special public meeting of the year in the Union at 7 p.m. tonight. Those who go will hear final point-by-point discussion and voting on the proposed Freshman Constitution...