Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago L. A. Rojas-Cruz, of Bogotá, Colombia, received a letter from us inviting him to subscribe to TIME'S Latin America edition, which is printed in English. Recently we heard from him as follows: "When I received your offer ... I was just starting to take English lessons and I could not read the letter. Now that I can I am anxious to get a subscription . . . and so would like to know the new rate...
...Frenchman living in Paris sent along the following note with his subscription renewal: "One of the strongest reasons I have for reading TIME, aside from its American viewpoint on world affairs, is that . . . when I read it I feel as if I were in America with its freedom and its wide spaces - a freedom we have lost in Europe and the space we never...
...Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, South and Central America. And five other lawmakers were going to Mexico-to study foot & mouth disease...
Berlin, whom Time Magazine calls "Winston Churchill's most penetrating wartime observer of wartime America," has returned to his old job of lecturing on philosophy at New College, Oxford, after a year at Harvard...
...Variety-Hour, which takes the place of a second feature, includes a pathos-laden "This Is America" short on an ex-GI who revisits his old battlegrounds; a Lowell Thomas piece about the California redwoods; a Bugs Bunny cartoon; Jan August in a few piano numbers; and "Football Headlines of 1949." The last-named is the best film the RKO Keith has to offer at the moment...