Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please commend TIME Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker for his Aug. 27 cover portrait. It is a change to see a natural and realistic picture of President Nasser instead of the distasteful and derogatory caricatures which seem to be the vogue in the Western press these days...
Please tell Luis Patricio Sullivan of Mexico City [Aug. 27] that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...
...student of international relations and ethnology, I can say that TIME'S Aug. 20 illustrated article on the Mediterranean was a journalistic masterpiece. It is no secret that-even in this international age-Americans have an extremely limited knowledge of the world they live in. The fine maps that accompanied the treatment of each great Mediterranean civilization were excellently suited towards remedying this situation...
Under the headline "Cancer Suspects" appearing in your Aug. 27 issue, you list "Beta-naphthylamine, used as a dye fixative in many lipsticks and chewing gums." As far as we know, and we have checked with all of the important technical experts in the lipstick field, beta-naphthylamine is not used in lipstick at all. Nor is it an intermediate of the various dyes which are used in the manufacture of lipsticks, and accordingly cannot even appear therein as a contaminant...
...enrolled at Harvard. Graduated in 1950, Connery worked for a year in the university's news office, then joined TIME. Ranging out of our Chicago bureau, he has sent us many memorable news reports and supplied material for cover stories on Brooklyn's Roy Campanella (TIME, Aug. 8, 1955), TV's Ed Sullivan (TIME, Oct. 17), and Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July...