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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationship between the U.S. press and radio rated a curt British glance last week. In the BBC Quarterly, BBC Publicity Director Kenneth Adam observed smugly that "the 25-year relationship between broadcasting and the press in Great Britain has not been complicated, as it has in the U.S., by competition for the attention of the advertisers." Despite this, he was forced to admit that, even in Britain, press-radio relations were not exactly ticketyboo. There is, he conceded, "a rivalry over the supply of news to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Exactly Ticketyboo | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...professor. She enrolls as a student, hounds him through bachelor's quarters and classrooms, and outsmarts his chilly fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best thing in the show: Iris Adrian as a stripteaser, uttering shrill little growls of self-esteem as she does-or rather, undoes-her stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grass Killer | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Adam Hat Co. 4. U.S. Steel Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affairs Test, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...form, Bend Sinister is a frank piece of dreamwork. Real as only a serious work of imagination can be, it tells the story of Philosopher Adam Krug during a revolution in a dream country which has strong resemblances to Germany, to Russia and, in certain aspects, to the U.S. The frightened faculty of his university call on Philosopher Krug to intercede for their institution with the new dictator, Paduk (nicknamed the Toad), who was a clammy schoolmate of Krug's 30 years before. Krug refuses; the dictatorship goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Superior Amusement | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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