Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every few years we go to a large number of TIME-subscribing families and ask you, please, to "sit for your portraits." We made one such survey in 1943 - but we know there have been a lot of changes since then. For example, the average TIME reader today is a little younger than the average TIME reader of five years ago (this is mostly because a lot of veterans are now reading TIME; men who got to know and like TIME overseas). And of course the average income of the TIME reader has gone up (today it is over...
Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's boss Communist, had benefited by rest and good doctoring. He moved home from the hospital, "notably improved," 17 days after his shooting by a would-be assassin. But he was going to keep right on resting in private for a while. He asked everybody "not to ask to visit me or to talk to me even for the shortest periods of time...
...deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
...version of what happened next: "... A tall, not unhandsome chap arose, a man of spiritual mien and prematurely grey, arose to declare: 'My name is Westbrook Pegler, Mr. Wallace . . . You have reminded us journalists of the important duty of getting all the available facts. Therefore, I ask you to say whether you did or did not write certain letters...
...Stooge? Pegler sat down. All the correspondents had agreed to ask only one question apiece. To three others who also put the Gurusome question Wallace snapped: "I never engage in a discussion with a stooge of Westbrook Pegler." Finally a watery-eyed oldster got up. "My name is Mencken, H. L.," he announced. "Will you call me a stooge of Pegler...