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...very fond of a civilized diet. They like their own everyday dishes, berries, roots and snake meat, better. As for all the other benefits of civilization, only the sewage system impresses them. Their loose loincloths, they say, are far superior to tight-fitting civilized clothing, and their own home brew, made from melons, has more kick than the white man's firewater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Civilization? No Thanks! | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Republic and twice as strong today as it was when George Washington presented the idea to Congress in 1789. Again & again since World War II, Harry Truman has asked Congress for U.M.T. But in the asking, the Pentagon has watered down the strong case to a weak brew of political expediency and half-measures. Last week the enemies of U.M.T. in the House of Representatives pounced on the latest U.M.T. compromise, seized it by its inconsistencies, and shook U.M.T. to sudden death while the Administration watched with fascinated horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death by Compromise | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew of bloodshed, bosoms and pseudo-science that had built the Weekly up in its heyday, but let it down in its old age. (The first Weekly editor, Morrill Goddard, regularly held up as a model to his writers the famed Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shaking the Empire | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Flowing Brew...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Embryo Diplomats Pursue International Life, Studies at Small, Congenial Fletcher School | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

...Adams House resident told the CRIMSON that the reasons for the operation were "fun and low cost." He explained that it cost only 25 cents to brew a quart of liquor twice as powerful as a $5 quart of a commercial brand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revenuers End Probe on Stills | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

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