Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 1,000 music teachers meeting in San Francisco, Music Critic Virgil Thomson had a confession: "Criticism [of young performers] has an influence far beyond what seems to me right or justified, and management depends on us [critics] more than we wish to be depended on."
From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME...
Hearts v. Chests. The trend was so terrific that some of the old-style confession magazines confessed that they were in trouble. Macfadden Publications, biggest tell-all in the business (True Story, True Romance, Experiences), refused to convert to the new comic format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped...
Less spectacularly, but just as efficiently, FBI agents recommended security precautions for thousands of U.S. factories, seized quantities of guns, charts and code books, rounded up more than 16,000 enemy aliens. So successful was the home-front campaign against saboteurs that not one case of enemy-directed sabotage was...
For five months Britain's press had been prevented, not by squeamishness but by law, from printing all the details of "Vampire" John George Haigh's nine murders. One editor had even gone to jail for hinting too broadly at the truth. But when Haigh's counsel...