Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word has come from E. Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas, publisher of the famed Little Blue Books, that TIME'S Press story on him in the Aug. 8 issue produced a fine response. "I must have heard from two thousand people by now," he said. "People wrote ordering books, sending in manuscripts, asking for racks full of books to sell. I heard from French Morocco, Brazil, and everyplace...
...both sides of the Channel, newsmen mobilized enough equipment to report a medium-sized war: rocket signals, marine radios, walkie-talkies, telescopes, carrier pigeons, eight boats and three planes. But Shirley May's target date (Aug. 14) came & went. Reporter Bob Musel, ghosting her diary for N.E.A. and covering the story for United Press, blamed repeated postponements on training hitches and bad weather. Delicately, he skirted the main reason, which Editor & Publisher reported as "a delay due to a monthly occurrence peculiar to women...
Marriage Revealed. Will L. Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta...
This cautious optimism was provoked by the fact that industrial production and employment were again rising swiftly. The Bureau of the Census reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment...
Madame Bovary. Jennifer Jones in a faithful portrayal of Flaubert's unfaithful French provincial lady; with James Mason and Van Heflin (TIME, Aug...