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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooper Union had plenty to celebrate. Over the years its assets, with the help of other rich men, had grown to $12,700,000, its schools of art and engineering were fully accredited on the college level, awarding bachelor's degrees in civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free of Charge | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Actually, for the past month, young Field and "Pete" Akers had been acting as top dogs without benefit of top titles. Field had long fretted that the morning and evening editions of the Sun-Times looked too much alike: there was little reason for anyone to buy both. Now he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

One chair was vacant at the head table last week when 350 Washington clubwomen gathered in the Mayflower Hotel for a luncheon meeting of the Community Chest. Over the fried chicken, a whisper spread among the guests. Finally Mrs. Henry Gichner rose and in a trembling voice confirmed the rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hokinson Girls | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

When Spanel, born in Russia but a U.S. citizen for about 35 years, won court rulings that it was libelous to imply that a man was a Communist and that the suits should go to trial, Pegler quit. Wrote he: "I gladly concede that the editorial advertisements ... were not Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unfair Enough | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

The Pic has also turned sex into sales with its own Kinsey report on John Bull's private life (headline: 450 VERY FRANK MEN AND WOMEN). Last summer, when cameramen pursued Princess Margaret (see below) into an Italian grotto and peered into her bedroom, the Pic loudly protested this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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