Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Garry Davis issued his first policy statement: "I ask everyone everywhere to write me to make known their desire to be registered as world citizens. Within two months the registry will be opened, and to each applicant will be issued a card stating that he possesses world citizenship . . . Not thousands, but millions ... of applications will be made . . . and in 1950 an assembly of the peoples of the world will be elected...
Hang an Editor. In the bad old days, says Bruce, editors shot at each other on the streets as often as they did in print. One is reported to have kept a card over his desk: "Subscriptions received from 9 to 4; challenges from 11 to 12 only!" A newsman who was slow on the draw had no future. (But editors were careful not to shoot a subscriber...
...Some of the paragraphs and illustrations reproduced on these pages are being used in the card we are sending this year to people who will receive gift-subscriptions to TIME...
...Bascom Hill, students emerging from a late class skidded and skated on the icy path, at first accidentally, then for fun. In Slichter Hall, the modern new men's dorm, a bunch of ex-G.I.s played an endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation...
...hand, explained Dr. Brailsford, is "the skeleton's calling card." It can be held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...