Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hebrides, was boiling mad. Mincing no words, he told the Edinburgh assembly of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Frees") that the church should break relations with the Y.M.C.A. The Y, he had discovered, was condoning modernist doctrines and "worldly amusements," and had put out a scandalous booklet for servicemen. Told in the Huts. Without further ado, the shocked assembly passed the resolution. Next day, it learned that the objectionable booklet was about France and Gallipoli during World War I, and had been out of print for 25 years...
Civilians who are nervous-or who should be-about returning veterans got more good advice last week, in a little booklet by Manhattan Psychiatrist Thomas A. C. Rennie (TIME, May 29), and Luther E. Woodward, Ph.D. Title: Two Talks to Families of Returning Servicemen-When He Comes Back and If He Comes Back Nervous (National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc.; 15?). Gist: be patient and sympathetic (but not maudlin), use your imagination and common sense...
...collectors of art-and of quotation marks-a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...
...relief, in famed Section 722, for those unfairly whacked. Under cover of 722's foggy wording, 34,000 corporations have filed claims for $12 billions paid in excess profits taxes. In an earnest attempt to clear away the fog, the Bureau of Internal Revenue issued a 210-page booklet. It told businessmen how they might try to get their money back...
Also announced yesterday in connection with the new Course booklet are several errors and omissions...