Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if it has ever occurred to Dr. Kinsey that the women who would avoid his survey are the one-third to two-thirds of U.S. women who are frigid and would not willingly admit to such a deficiency...
TIME'S Letters Department recently received a letter from Reader Israel Efrati of Haifa, Israel. "I must admit that I don't take much interest in music," he wrote, "especially the heavy side of it. But, liking your magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name...
...mouth. In packed John Hancock Hall, Dulles told the A.B.A. assembly that the Bricker Amendment "would set the clock back to ... the Articles of Confederation." * Yalta and Potsdam, Dulles conceded, were executive agreements-but so was the Korean armistice. Said the Secretary of State: "I do not admit that because power can be abused, it follows that power should be annulled...
...worth of the physical plant plus two or three times the net profit after taxes; the plant plus $10 to $20 for each subscriber; gross receipts plus 20% for good will. But even when they apply any or all of the formulas, brokers like Washington's Allan Kander admit that after they get the result, they "dive for a crystal ball." And the formulas cannot account for the huge increase in values represented by some of the sales that have taken place. In California's San Bernardino County, the publisher of a semiweekly, which he bought...
Secret Deals. Almost any week, Editor & Publisher carries several ads from would-be newspaper buyers, but most newspapers are not sold that way, because even publishers who might sell are seldom willing to admit it. Any rumor that a newspaper is on the block makes employees jittery and causes advertisers to fear that the paper may be declining (three years ago the New York Herald Tribune asked the state attorney general to investigate persistent rumors that it was for sale). As a result, most negotiations are conducted in strictest secrecy...