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Yale's President Charles Seymour announced that veterans going to New Haven would attend not Yale College but an Institute of Collegiate Study, where college life would be adapted to war-weathered students. Summer vacations, dropped for the duration, would be restored, because year-round schooling is "unprofitable" or "disastrous." Since Yale is not equipped for vocational training, it will continue to stress the humanities...
...hardest work of his life. His early-morning routine has changed little: awake at 7:30; a quick but thorough go at the Washington and New York papers (he reads Columnists Clapper and Lippmann regularly); breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and milk; then, propped in bed in his year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes...
...volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
...getting a crack at the Big Show now. An added, unexpected source has been the refugees from abroad. But the turnover among the men who move the show, care for the animals, etc., is terrific: 600 have already gone into uniform. Where formerly Ringling could count on 300 year-round men plus 500 "floating"' workers, the whole nonperforming staff is now floating...
...sailed to get his share was short, swarthy Captain Andrew Vilicich, master of the sleek, 77-ft. Gallant. Like most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends...