Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because news is a perishable commodity, TLI takes pride in the knowledge that most of these 260,000 copies of TIME were being read while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The story behind this accomplishment might very well begin with an Indian Maharaja who, in 1941, was paying $585.60 a year airmail charges to have TIME flown to him. At that time only 26,000 copies of TIME were going (by surface mail) to the world outside continental North America. There were many requests for faster delivery overseas, but the best air-delivered price we could...
...story is told in three episodes which begin jointly when three young matrons receive a letter saying "I am running off with your husband tonight." The action is then in flashbacks in which each wife recalls her married life to see if it has been such a failure as to force her husband to leave her. The best episode is the one involving Ann Southern and Kirk Doughlas. In it, Mankiewiez, through Douglas, makes a keen and cogent attack on the social status of the school teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from...
Karl Kohn, piano, and Robert Ritzenheim, violin, will give a concert of violin sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, and Faure in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room tomorrow. The performance, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin...
...reduced quorum of Liberal Union members voted last night to give a legal staff full power of attorney to begin action in the current HLU Film Series dispute with the University Theater and its distributors. Before the business meeting, J. William Belanger, Massachusetts CIO president, and John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics, discussed the Taft-Hartley...
...Advocate will begin a policy of expanded coverage of the college community with the printing this week of a study of "The Jew at Harvard," Lloyd Gilmour, Jr. '51, Secretary, announced last night...