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...problem is obvious; these statistics mean that close to half of the married veterans at the University will be forced into quarters which cannot be considered adequate, and their ability to study efficiently must suffer as a result. At the same time, all expectations that the housing squeeze would straighten itself out with time, or be solved by governmental conjure, have faded with the emasculation of the Wyatt housing program and the recent prediction of local constructors that, barring miracles, the shortage will last for the next five years. Only temporary housing, erected and installed by the University, will prevent...
That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
Although most comments on MMP come from you, we also hear occasionally from our subjects. Hollywood's Errol Flynn. who has some kind of affinity for the People section, is forever writing in to "straighten" us out on this or that technicality of his misadventures. Not long ago Clark Gable's first wife, Josephine Dillon, communicated her displeasure at another magazine's description of her as "many years his [Gable's] senior.'' She thought we ought to know that she is only "three'' years older than Gable, who is "swiftly approaching fifty...
Meanwhile the U.S. would do its best to clamp down on the black markets, straighten the currency muddle, extend credit and speed the shipment of goods to the islands. Last week the Administration also made up its mind on trade policy; it would ask Congress to give the Philip pines free trade with the U.S. for eight years and tariffs which would rise gently for 25 years after that...
Harry Truman flew back from a weekend in Independence, Mo., to try to straighten things out. He already had a hint-in the Senate Finance Committee's rejection of his proposal to raise unemployment compensation to $25 a week for 26 weeks-of how basic was the conflict...