Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME propose to adapt itself to the "busy man?" The 16 pages of the prospectus, more prolix than the magazine it described, boiled down to three basic ideas...
...announcement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. had held the initiative. Russia was in momentary retreat. Last week the Marshall Plan was still a going idea and would soon help bolster the rickety economy of Europe. U.S. Congressmen had largely abandoned old ideas of isolationism. To most observers basic U.S. policies seemed sound. Then what had gone wrong...
...with leukemia, depressed by the state of the divided world, he began to doubt his basic premise. Last week, Geoffrey Pyke, 54, gave up, killed himself with an overdose of a barbiturate. It was the only unoriginal thing he had ever done...
TIME got the sense of that assumption into its report of the conference-but in so doing it missed a lot of excitement. Most of the dailies panted through new crises with every edition. If Molotov frowned, peace was doomed. If he conceded a minor point, Russian basic policy seemed to have undergone a complete transformation. Radio listeners could almost hear the thud of hooves in the background of the conference bulletins. "Now Molotov's ahead. But he looks tired. Stettinius called a press conference. . . ." All this nonsense was so vastly confusing (and so essentially false) that many readers...
Convinced by war experience that the basic character of the Newsmagazine need not be changed by a newsgathering setup, TIME now has a world-covering organization. Working under Hulburd's direction are TIME bureaus in 13 U.S. and Canadian cities, plus 85 part-time stringers in other localities. In Washington, the TIME office has 13 correspondents and 14 staff assistants. Abroad, TIME has 15 bureaus in key cities and 36 stringers elsewhere...