Colleges Urged To Discard Entrance Exams After War
A commission on liberal education of the Association of American Colleges urged after war demobilization that colleges drop or revise entrance requirements for returning veterans. The plan would assess each student by aptitude and achievement tests rather than standard criteria, reflecting the older more mature veteran student body. The group includes 580 colleges and universities and aims to fit the modern reconstructed world.
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New York
Commission On Liberal Education
Association of American Colmade Public Today
James P. Baxter
Williams College
Commission
Association
Colleges Face Postwar Role In Peace Time Education
The report states that many graduates will seek rapid entry into peacetime careers and marriage, while colleges must provide lasting liberal education benefits. It notes that institutions cannot fully revert to prewar norms as society undergoes broad reconstruction.
Stock contracts drain dreams of aspiring film stars
Hollywood players reveal how stock deals pay little and trap hopeful girls in a six month cycle. Studios replace unproven actresses with fresh faces, paying minimal per diem while promising future fame and exposure as agents bank on forward momentum.
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Hollywood
Jane Doe
Moscow Bulletin Signals Quiet Front as War Enters Summer Phase
The Moscow announcement spoke of 65 planes among civilians and a stern silence on vast fronts. Sporadic artillery punctuated Russian fronts but no overall land-front shift, with both sides amassing stores of ammunition, tanks, and troops ahead of a predicted decisive summer battle.
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Moscow
Axis Claims Roosevelt Proposed Dissolution Of Red Comitern
Axis propaganda spread a claim that President Roosevelt proposed liquidating the Communist International in a letter delivered by Joseph E. Davies to Premier Stalin in Moscow. Berlin radio aired a Lisbon dispatch as supposed proof, alleging Americans in Lisbon fed senators in Washington. The Communist International later announced its own dissolution, with no verified link to the Roosevelt letter.
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Associated Press
Axis
Roosevelt
Joseph E. Davies
Stalin
Msocow
Communist International
Berlin
Lisbon
Washington
Russia
Heavies on by American Flying Fortresses
Berlin says major damage to property in Wilhelmshaven and Emden was caused by the American four engine bombers. The German communiqué claims 17 bombers were shot down by fighters and antiaircraft fire while the USAAF reports 12 bombers lost.
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Bigh Command
Berlin
Associated Press
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
USAAF
Hanff Promoted in 144 Armored Regiment at Camp Campbell
Capt Sam Hanff promoted in the U S Army since 1940. He serves with the 144 Armored Regiment at Camp Campbell Ky. He graduated from officers training school in May 1942 and was commissioned as lieutenant. He is the son of Mrs S M Hanff and brother of Mrs M D Bonner.
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Sam Hanff
144 Armored Regiment
Camp Capbell
U. S. Army
Hanff
S. M. Hanff
M. D. Bonner
Guilford Sanitorium
R. F. J. Johnson
Bay Street School
Soldier accepted for Army specialist training at University of Idaho
Cpl. Harry A. Snyder has been accepted into the Army specialist training program and transferred to the University of Idaho in Moscow. He entered service in October 1942 and is the son of Mrs. Ruby Snyder of 218 Steele Street, formerly stationed at Camp White, Oregon.
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Carl H. Howard
R. F. Howard
Stanly County
High Point
Army
Fort Bragg
Keesler Field
Miss
Springfield
Ill
New Orleans
National School of Aeronautics
Kansas City
Pfc. Howard
K. L. Howard
U. S. Navy
Cpl
Virgil P. Howard
Harry A. Snyder
University of Idaho At
Moscow
Idaho
Cpl. Snyder
Ruby Snyder
Steele Street
Camp White
Ore
Local Servicemen Rise in Ranks and Training
Reynolds advances to yeoman third class at Pensacola Navy Training Center. Scarce graduates from RAF flexible gunnery school at Kingman Arizona. Brinson promoted to sergeant after Armament School completion at Lowry Field Colorado.
Army air force gunnery school graduate named Lloyd G. Stovall
A recent graduate of the Army Air Force flexible gunnery school at Kingman Arizona is 21 year old Lloyd G. Stovall son of Mr and Mrs Geo L Stovall of East Russell Street.
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Army Air Force
Kingman, Ariz
Lloyd G. Stovall
Geo. L. Stovall
East Russell Street
White Graduate at New River
Pvt. Wallace H. White formerly of Trinity graduated from the Infantry Weapons Course at the Marine Base in New River.
Moffitt Commissioned Second Lieutenant in Army
Wm. P. Moffitt Jr. of 222 Edgeworth Street was commissioned second lieutenant at Camp Lee Virginia. As a fighting quartermaster he and other new officers will take duties with active Army flights.
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Moffitt
Wm. P. Moffitt, Jr
Edgeworth Street
U. S. Army
Camp Lee
Ray Street Band Tops City Wide Elementary Contest
Ray Street School earned the highest rating among city elementary bands at the second annual all city event held in the Senior High School auditorium. Judges included W B Lord of Mills Home Band and Ernestine Fields from High Point College. Ratings covered band divisions ensembles solos and quartets with Ray Street achieving top marks in several categories.
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Ray Street
W. B. Lord
Mills
Thomasville
Ernestine Fields
High Point College
Virginia Frank
Louis Alrutz
R. F. Garwood
Carl Cronstedt
Moffit Commissioned Second Lieutenant At Camp Lee Virginia
William P. Moffitt Jr formerLy of 222 Edgeworth Street completed a 13 week officer candidate course at Camp Lee Virginia and last week was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U S Army He departs with new officers to perform duties wherever the Army fights In the same dateline Balkans fighting rages across Bosnia and Montenegro with German reinforcements for Italian forces after Yugoslav patriots killed or captured a fascist garrison of 713 men per the government in exile
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William P. Moffitt, Jr
Edgeworth Street
Quartermaster School
Camp Lee
U. S. Army
Moffitt
Balkan
London
Bosnia
Montenegro
Balkans
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