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...aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back if only Scooty could be allowed to bark to Auntie over the radio. This was just the sort of schmalz We, the People wanted, but when the woman arrived, after due publicity she brought no dog. Suspicion was that there had never been one. But the show went on, with a rented dog who yelped convincingly enough when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Schmalz | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...saying exactly what he thought. Dressed to the nines for the Inauguration, Henry Wallace plaintively asked his colored houseman. Edward, whether he had to wear clothes like that for every Cabinet meeting. It was told that as a child he loved his dog so deeply that he learned to bark and bury bones; that as an idealistic experimenter he had lost twelve pounds trying to live on a diet of corn; that he so disliked his big mahogany desk when he went to the Department of Agriculture that he worked on only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...mayor of Crosnes, a village near Paris, France, issued a decree forbidding the dogs of his commune to bark from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Emotional Responses of Children to Radio Drama. Last week the university revealed some of his findings: 1) Children often do have violent physiological reactions to radio programs. 2) Violent action is not the only cause of excitement-small children got a major thrill out of hearing a dog bark in his bath. 3) Biggest thrill of all in one program was the offer of a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Measured Thrills | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Latest circulation figures: News, 35,741; Free Press, 34,721.) To the Congressional committee investigating TVA last summer the Free Press general manager explained T.E.P. could have had a cheaper rate under contract, added: "We never offered them a contract." This later caused Committee Counsel Francis Biddle to bark: "Tennessee Electric has been subsidizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Press & Power | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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