Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These untold tales will emerge automatically and add up to the subject's total character, provided only that I do two things: first, report unflinchingly every perceptible form; second, weave and integrate these forms into a living unity. If it works, I will then be telling TIME readers not only what the man looks like but what he Is like-a really good reporting...
...your waistline. The line goes up, rounded and small, to a defined and shapely bosom." Harper's, having first proclaimed in a kind of hypnotist's monotone that "already you are noticing [that] heavy, bulky shoulder pads are annoying you," now went unconcernedly on: "You may add to your hip-periphery by tying on extra hip pads." The real thing, it explained, "is to clear your mind of all silhouette fixations...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...
...took $4.7 billion of private capital to build the industry's 80 million-ton prewar capacity. It cost $2.5 billion to add 15 million tons during the war. At present prices, it would probably cost another $2.5 billion to add another ten million tons. Such costs, argues the industry, would force the high price of steel still higher...
Many of the tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...