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...Holy City. Mountain-rimmed Salt Lake City (pop. 183,000) is no longer a fortress and a prison. Last week the town which Brigham Young laid out "foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three railroads, four airlines, four main highways. It is one of the cleanest and friendliest cities in the U.S., and one of the healthiest. The descendants of the lean and desperate Mormon pioneers have a well-fed, well-dressed, freshly scrubbed and glowing look. Mormon women walk with a high-bosomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...every American boy within earshot of a radio knows, Cowboy Tom Mix's* wondrous compass-magnifying glass may be obtained for only 15? and one Shredded Ralston box top. The same price plus one box top of General Mills' Kix will bring the "awe-inspiring" atomic-bomb ring with its "concealed observation lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Frenzied Flashes | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Well they might be. Robbins not only makes the atomic ring (see cut) and the Mix compass, but it turns out some dozen similar gadgets (the Orphan Annie dog whistle, Captain Midnight's code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Frenzied Flashes | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...professional tutors due entirely to "unethical" or counter-educational practices, or was it basically an indictment of Harvard teaching? Since the college examinations are not affairs of fact and rote, it cannot be said that we trained the memory and impoverished the understanding. It is possible that, in brief compass, we taught our students to think on fundamentals sufficiently well to impress their academic mentors. If this be a fault, I ery "Peccavi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

Sprawled haphazardly across two Cambridge blocks, Adams House offers incomin Freshmen a variety of advantages, squash courts, a swimming pool, and ready accessibility to all points on the University compass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprawling Adams Offers Proximity, Good Food to Incoming Freshmen | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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