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...issue of TIME, Aug. 18, there is a picture of a little mouse undergoing, as the caption reads, his "Fatigue Test" . . . Vivisection constitutes a dark shadow in the history of any nation. We can take hope, however, in the ground swell that is arising. Until it becomes a roar of public disapproval, the little mouse will have to continue his "Fatigue Test," until from sheer pain and despair, he will close his tiny eyes and sleep, and his captors can hurt him no more...
...Class of '56 will swell the College roster to 4500 men, 100 over last year's total. The overall University total will be lower, despite a small increase in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. There will be 10,250 students registered in the University by the end of this week, as compared to last year...
...would need an order at least that big to justify the expansion necessary to put Comets into volume production (current production: one a month). But Rickenbacker's time limit was hard for the leisurely Britons to meet ("Really now," commented one British aircraft builder, "you cannot suddenly swell an industry to twice its size, you know"). De Havilland's bosses promised Rickenbacker a firm answer within a week...
...action in chancery court, the Inland Revenue claimed that an improperly dated agreement signed by the tenth Duke of Devonshire just before his death last year was void; instead of going to a nonprofit fund, and thus escaping death duties, the collection should go to swell the duke's other assets (to ?3,000,000). Since the 80% death duty on the whole estate would leave the family only ?600,000-less than the value of the collection alone-the heirs would have to sell the Chatsworth art and break up the collection. Said the court: "I cannot refrain...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). John P. Marquand's Swell Girl, with Wendell Corey and Victoria Ward...