Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After these miner lapses, however, there is a rush toward better things. "The Criminal Record" guides the reader expertly through five masterpieces of 'tee' literature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate". The Personals and the Classified ads alone make this issue worth any man's, or, better still, any maid's, quarter. There is also a double-crostic, no harder to work than those Mrs. Kingsley usually presents. The faint Limerick tinge to this one merely shows we are in Boston...
Referring to the last three lines centre column p. 39, TIME, May 24: you say the Coronation program was "the longest continuous program in radio history." We question this in view of the fact that on March 24, 1934, General Petroleum Corp. of California through its advertising agency Smith & Drum, Inc. introduced Mobilgas to the Pacific Coast with a radio program over all stations of the [then] Columbia Don Lee network which ran from 7:30 a.m. until midnight. The first 9½ hours and the last 3½ hours of this broadcast were continuous. Occasional interruptions between...
Sirs: Again on the subject of military dress-TIME, May 3, p. 18, column i: ''Filty thousand Britons ... to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics. . . ." Because of their distinctive costume and the title of their colonel, the Royal Horse Guards were known as the Oxford Blues soon after their formation in 1661. Today the supplementary official title of the regiment and the one by which it is commonly known is The Blues...
Chain store taxes similar to Louisiana's are pending in several other States and addition of a few more States to the tax column would take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME...
27th. The whole week's newspapers in piles around the room. I pick up the latest from the table and settle back. "Wedding on June 3. Americans at Chateau de Cande". And on and on, column after column without end. Pictures, too. "The Duke and his finance strolling in the chateau garden. Mrs. Warfield's dark Buick riding through the countryside." To Hell with it all. Let's have a book, something good, something old. Out of the bookcase the thick, leather-bound Shakespeare. Flipping the pages, one by one, dozen by dozen. Macbeth, no, gloomy. Two Gentlemen of Verona...