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The article presents news briefs as of February 1942. The U.S. Navy is building ten submarines in Lake Michigan port. The total cinema attendance in Great Britain in 1941 was 15,000,000 greater than the previous high. The Manhasset Bay estate of the late Walter P. Chrysler in New York opens a training school for merchant-marine officers.

Presents news briefs in the U.S. as of August 6, 1938. Budget surplus posted by the state of New York after seven years of deficits; Victory of the Screen Writers Guild against the Screen Playwrights in the first Labor Relations Board election involving employees in the $250 to $3,000 a week salary bracket.

Presents the author's reflections on working as a clerk in Brentano's Bookstore in New York City before World War II. Brentano's particular interest in old and rare books; Description of the riffling process, which was done to make sure that old books did not have anything inserted in their leaves before they were resold; Author's failure to riffle a set of books, which had paper money interleaved in them.

The article discusses the reaction of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) on the claim made by the New York City Fire Department that by the use of a computerized model, the association has achieved a savings of $7 million. The deployment of men and equipment under all possible situations is stimulated and evaluated by the model. The UFA's president, Michael J. Maye, calls the claim of $7 million saving a paper figure. He says that $600,000 spent on computer studies might better have been spent on more manpower and latest tools.