America to Lead Postwar World In Education
Four Columbia professors predict the United States will be the great intellectual center after WWII, attracting foreign students to its colleges and universities. They cite Europe’s losses and America’s wartime educational leadership as fuel for a continuous stream of international students.
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United States
Columbia University
America
Harry J. Carman
Columbia College
France
England
Germany
Europe
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
California
Midwest
Sorbonne
University of Berlin
Oxford
Cambridge
Robert D. Calkins
Columbia School of Business
Calkins
George B. Pegram
Russia
Scandinavian
Pegram
U.s.5.r
Pocket fashion and quirky teen craft trends emerge
Readers explore pocket styling like patch pockets and flower pot pockets for old sweaters and skirts. The piece notes mitten pockets from old gloves, clothesline capers with doll clothes pins, and quirky jewelry made from burnt bulbs, toothbrush handles, umbrella tips, and dominoes.
Antique Ford Keeps Rolling Despite Distance
Private Anthony Pfister a flight maintenance mechanic near Colorado Springs tends to drive home in a 1905 Ford that has appeared in several movies. The antique car with a four cylinder engine 28 by 3 tires and acetylene headlights runs at 20 miles per hour, and Pfister warns the 2,200 mile trip to Clinton New Jersey will take a long time with no exact arrival prediction.
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Anthony Pfister
Colorado Springs
Colo
Clinton
N. J
Ford
Pfister
New Jersey
Souvenir picks Marines prefer from Japanese on New Britain
Staff Sergeant Donald Hallman lists top items Marines favor as trophies from Japanese forces on New Britain. Officer saber, pistols with holster, flags, portable radios, field glasses, harakiri knife sets, thousand stitch belts, yen money, name stamps, chopsticks, socks handkerchiefs and canned heat noted as sought after by troops.
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Donald Hallman
New Britain
Union
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle
Beauty tips advise keeping tools ready for instant use. Cover powder, keep fragrance contained, clean bottle necks, cork perfumes, tidy rouge boxes, sharpen pencils, and shape lipsticks. Ledger Syndicate. WNU Features.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Antilouse Powder DDT Fights Typhus In Naples
Brig. Gen. Leon Fox announced at the Allied medical conference that the army's antilouse powder DDT, used on a mass scale for the first time, has arrested the spread of typhus in Naples. The report comes from Algiers where Fox serves as field director of the U S typhus commission.
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Algiers
Algeria
Naples
Leon Fox
Birmingham
Ala
United States
Rhyming Teen Sayings Stir Fun and Playful Patter
Teens share playful rhymes that thrill with sound rather than meaning. Phrases like what's cookin good cookin and hi cousin what's buzzin spark quick laughs and friendly banter among peers. The lighthearted practice reflects youth culture and wordplay.
Daring Seabee Diver Escapes Flesh-Eating Sea Plant
Navy diver A. F. Wigel and five others labored in Aleutian waters to right a seven million dollar ship. Wigel became entangled by a red plant with brown specks and long tentacles. He sawed free and described watching the plant swallow a starfish, later learning the creature was flesh hungry. He quipped the plant would need to chew fast to eat him and his five hundred pounds of gear.
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Seabee
A. F. Wigel
Aleutian
U. S
Wigel
Postwar Housing Demand May Reach One Million Units Annually
A Twentieth Century Fund survey finds postwar housing needs could exceed 1,000,000 nonfarm units per year for a decade after the war ends. It notes a deteriorated housing stock, high repair needs in urban and rural areas, and rising vacancies, signaling large construction and related employment.
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America
Twentieth Century Fund
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
How to improve a linen closet with quilted chintz shelves and lavender scent. Recommend plain trim on shelf edges, lavender fragrance retained by chintz, and easy cleaning with a damp cloth. Suggest kitchen closet upgrades like paper edging, hanging for utensils, and good lighting. Propose a closet fixing day for satisfaction.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Army's Wasp Wagon Makes Public Bow in Cleveland
In Cleveland the M-16 known as the wasp wagon debuts after three campaigns. This mobile anti aircraft half track carries four .50 caliber Browning guns. Firepower reaches up to 2000 shots a minute with a four pronged turret operable in all directions.
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Cleveland
Army
Reading public's top four sports are football baseball boxing and racing
An indignant non-combatant argues that basketball lacks national appeal while softball bowling and hockey attract limited audiences. He asserts football and baseball dominate reading and writing interest with boxing and racing close behind, while track bowling and basketball appeal mainly locally.
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Army
Navy
Dodgers
Yankees
Dempsey
Joe Louis
Beau Jack
Notre Dame
Rockne
Mel Ott’s Swing Grounded in Balance Not One-Foot Theory
The piece debunks the notion Ott swings from a single foot. He explains he lifts the right foot to stay balanced on the left, then places it down before contact to free his right leg for power.
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Mel Ott
Mel
Pattern 731 Transfer Offers 12 Motifs
Pattern 731 contains a transfer with 12 motifs sized from 34 by 114 inches to 6 by 9% inches and complete directions. The kit costs sixteen cents in coins. High demand and wartime conditions require extra time to fill orders for popular pattern numbers.
Bee sting tale echoes in a royal exchange
In a terse dialogue a speaker claims to have been stung by a queen bee during a back and forth about royalty. The odd transcription suggests a clipped conversation with repeated fragments and a surprising insect encounter.
No Wonder Jack Bed Joke Sparks Mild Banter
A playful exchange between Belle and Jack centers on a teased bed joke about turning peppery humor and Lot's wife turning to salt. The light moment underscores casual conversation and wordplay.
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Lot
Jack
Belle
Barber's Joking Quip Sparks Timber Tone Exchange
A barber jokes about cutting a throat after a customer asks if his tie was red on entry. The exchange captures a terse, darkly humorous moment in a local shop setting.
Soldiers and cigarettes in military slang noted
A wartime ad notes slang used by soldiers to refer to officers as buzzards and cigarettes as Camels. It mentions how slang crosses services, with Camels sold in service stores and shippable to troops overseas or at home via Post Office rules.
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U. S
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Adv
Minute wartime leaflets dropped by bombers abroad
Air force actions over Europe last year included millions of miniature newspapers in over 10 languages printed in Britain and the United States. Bundled in packs of 500, each 2 by 4 inches, these 10 000 word papers carried war news for covert concealment.
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Europe
England
United States
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