Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes last week went to a gay party at the headquarters of the Polish mission in Berlin. Hughes cabled...
...hardest job," he says, "has been to keep our church from becoming a social whip. The radicals bear down, saying we are not in there fighting. Others want us to become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part...
...rush of teen-agers and women to vacation and seasonal jobs sent the Census Bureau's figures for June employment to 61,296,000-over 1,000,000 above the previous record set in July...
...National Better Business Bureau, Inc. and the Association of National Advertisers had already objected to the FTC ruling, on the grounds that most "free" offers clearly stated the conditions in un-deceptive terms. The book men, given 20 days to answer the charges in court, lost no time in speaking their minds out of court. Said one book club official: "Perfect nonsense." In the Literary Guild's full-page ads this week, the most prominent word in the copy, in black, inch-high capitals, was FREE...
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903, allegedly near London. ("It's a great secret where I was born," Waugh said, when asked by TIME's London bureau, and hung up.) His father, a journalist turned successful book publisher, was a man of solidly middle-class taste, who reared Evelyn and his elder brother Alec (The Loom of Youth, Going Their Own Ways) in the solidly middle-class London suburb of Finchley...