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Saved by the Bell. Oregon was in less perilous financial condition. Its voters passed an initiative measure like California's last autumn. They were rescued by their own shortsightedness-they voted for pension increases which would have cost more than the whole expense of running the state, but they failed to provide any means of paying them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...friends & foes had generally agreed that radio's soap operas would not lend themselves successfully to the TV screen. As is often the case with expert guessers on television, they were wrong. Headed by the successful The Goldbergs, soap operas will surely widen their TV beachhead this autumn. But there are snags, nevertheless, for both soap operas and other radio serials. Some of the shows promised or projected, and their problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...vote, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House trustees decided to eat their harsh words banning Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad from an autumn engagement. Without her, it seemed, the box-office outlook was too dark. In Salzburg, where she was still as popular as in prewar days, Flagstad magnanimously announced: "I will accept the invitation . . . despite the incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...rather, the ($199.95) television set on the market. It was a good set and, under liberalized installment-buying regulations, within reach of most U.S. pocketbooks. Commercial sponsors, after their summer desertion, were beginning to come back to the fold-TV networks have more business scheduled for this autumn than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Leaning Tower of Babel | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Count. Dutton's experts start each summers campaign the previous autumn estimating the number of eggs that have been laid just under the ground in the chief breeding areas. Then the division publishes a brightly colored grasshopper map showing ranchers and farmers where to expect trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War in the West | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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