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Across a wintry Harvard quadrangle this week marched 151 singing Air Forces cadets to graduation exercises that made them Stat Control Officers, newest category of the Army Air Forces. They already had their orders for a new kind of field duty that is a cross between war and big business...
...Frequently a man in his early 20s commands a bombardment squadron worth $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 in equipment alone. Most have no business training, though each unit is a business which must turn in a profit. Once Arnold's system is in full operation, a Stat officer will be attached to each Air Force unit down to the farthest squadron. By instituting a management-control system, General Arnold hopes to up those profits in terms of damage to the enemy and conservation of U.S. men and equipment. Each Stat officer records and analyzes weekly the status...
Sirs: I have just received the letter from Florence, Italy, you forwarded to me, stat ing that Contessa Edith Rucellai, of Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, is assembling an Inter national Exhibition of cartoons and caricatures for the benefit of a Florentine charity, and would like to have the U. S. represented. In view of the fact that the countess learned of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists through TIME, we hope you will announce that the Association would be glad to receive and forward original cartoons and caricatures done by any professional artist. No ceremony or fee is attached...
...correct the evils of present day athletics. In a way he is correct, but looking at the matter from other aspects, matters would be more complicated. As a transferred student from the University of Chicago I am familiar with the Western Conference, or "Big Ten" (Chicago, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio Stat, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Northwestern, and Purdue). The conference system has one very great failing, namely, the utter unreliability of determining the championship, which I shall endeavor to illustrate. Last year Chicago won the Big Ten Championship, although the Maroon success was due to three tie games and only...
...office reports indicate that every stat will be taken when the first speaker mounts the platform tomorrow. Tickets are still to be had, especially in the cheaper sections of the house, but the management is preparing to install platform seats in anticipation of an eleventh hour rush...