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Harvard Logic. In Harvard, Neb., Robert Pinckney, 16, bought four lots at a tax sale, demanded from the city fathers $20 back rent and a $40 sales price for the town jail thereon. They turned right around and fired his father, town physician...
...Cahal's letter on British candor (TIME, Dec. 7) and especially TIME's editorial comment thereon seem to reveal confused thinking on that most frequent source of American confusion, India. Mr. Cahal asks where do Mr. Churchill's characteristically candid words (on the "liquidation" of the British Empire) leave India, and TIME, quoting the so-called "Churchill clause" in the Atlantic Charter, opines "Mr. Churchill evidently considers India 'an existing obligation...
...March 5, 1942, the operators of vehicles other than emergency vehicles shall immediately reduce speed to not more than 15 miles per hour, drive to the side, of the road or curb at the first opportunity and stop. The operators of vehicles shall extinguish the lights thereon. The operators of such vehicles shall not park at intersections hydrants, police stations, fire stations or hospitals. If practical, the operators of such vehicles shall drive the same entirely off the travelled portions of the road or highway. Vehicles already parked at the curb, in parking place or garages shall be left where...
...first annual report Dean Ferguson has erected an impressive monument to the late tenure controversy, and inscribed thereon a sad and gentlemanly epitaph to the ten assistant professors. With a wealth of facts and figures the Dean has traced the origins of the tenure crisis which broke last year--the over-expansion of the optimistic twenties, and the retrenchment necessitated by a stationary budget and the Committee of Eight's new rank system. He describe the care with which the Administration regretfully lopped off the now-famous ten, and points out that while ten men were fired, about twenty-three...
...week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...