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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations and thanks for the excellent portrayal of Alfred Korzybski and account of general semantics [TIME, Feb. 14]. It is a remarkable feat to give a clear account of a complex system and of a great (though often difficult) man,all in a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Europe for all books (other than collections), whether the book be a classic, a reprint, or a bestseller. The economics of the book business in America are pretty incomprehensible. (No matter how many copies of a best-seller are sold, the publisher usually announces that he only breaks clear because of the sale of movie rights.) Why couldn't something similar to the Rinchart paper editions be used for all new books? There are damn few books coming out each day of which the prospective purchaser is confident he wants a permanent copy. Sales resistance should decrease when not only...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...presented by several U.S. Senators in the current debate over proposed amendment of the cloture rule to prevent filibusters from blocking legislative action. Still in progress, the discussion began on February 28, and has been primarily a Dixieorat affair. The Southerners charge that the majority move is designed to clear the path for forcing antipoll tax, anti-lynch, and Fair Employment Practices laws through the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn't let anything good come of it. Charley recalls that when, in the middle of the kid-glove slugfest for the vice-presidency at the bank, he goes back to Clyde. As he walks through the old familiar scene, he knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...last month, military success has been on the side of the Republican guerrillas, and the Dutch are finding their position less tenable. At the Indian meeting the formation of a Far Eastern bloc was suggested. Though rejected, it was clear proof that Asiatic nations are prepared to organize to protect their interests. Continued Dutch action has become enormously dangerous by risking alienation of such a group. To crack the whip, Senator Brewster recommended last month that ECA aid be cut-off from any nation which disregards UN directives...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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