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...thousand times No! to the suggestion of Roland Moncure [TIME, Feb. 22] that TIME and LIFE reach their destinations on different days! What with one's husband, a 15-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter to pounce upon them, it sometimes happens that I am able to seize one! But for only ONE to be arriving at a time-I surely hope not for there would then be two days a week to endure the suspense which I only have to experience one day now! Let the management of both TIME and LIFE consider the many other...
Three hundred thousand U. S. women have cancer. Some 80,000 will die of it this year. Some 40,000 need not die of it if they take or have taken advantage of the resources which Medicine has so far marshaled against the nation's second most common cause of death. About six women get cancer to every five men. The most prevalent forms of cancer in women, however, are cancer of the breast and womb, which are the most curable. To bring this message of warning and hope to the 45,000,000 U. S. women was this...
...comparison between the European and American attitude in this respect will doubtlessly delight the "bigger-and-better" gentlemen, but should make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment for Germany's 66,000,000 people. "Jewish lout . . . inciter . . . chief master of gangsters [who] having bribed him . . . have become still more insolent in murdering, looting and in kidnapping children. ... A Jewish ruffian . . . [who indulged in] an orgy of insult before a thousand Jewish women whom he fetched in from the streets...
...major sport" is the amount of interest it arouses in the College. AT present there is only one winter major sport--hockey--and its popularity is unquestioned in New England. During the past two years however, there has been a phenomenal growth in another sport--basketball. Tonight over two thousand people jam the stands to watch the game with Yale, tonight Harvard basketball will conclude its most successful season...