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...beginning, Britain, France and the three Benelux nations will compose the Council. Others will be invited to join. The Council will consist of government ministers meeting in secret and a "consultative body" meeting in public. The body of ministers will control the agenda of the lower deliberative chamber, and in general will exercise the real power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Three-Twentieths of the Way | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

James Biggar '13, former head of caretaking, will become Special Assistant to the Administrative Vice-President. His duties will consist of making special studies and reports for the vice-president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Shakes Up Service Departments | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...Yorker, Lexicographer H. L. Mencken* took a long look at the developing language of television. Like other barbaric dialects, Mencken found, it includes many borrowings from earlier cultures (theater, movies, radio); and TV's own coinages, as reported by Variety and assorted philologers, seemed to consist largely of the obvious, like ike for iconoscope. Other samples of current video verbiage given by Mencken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Video Verbiage | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...took one year to plan, three years to write, and two more to edit this ambitious literary history of the U.S. The first two volumes consist of essays by 55 scholars; the third is a valuable bibliography. Here, presumably, is everything most readers could possibly want to know about American writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many Minds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Dave McGiffert and Ted Bullard at the forward posts will carry Eliot wherever it goes this season, although a fairly tall opening aggregation will help to keep the Elephant head above water. The starting five will probably consist of these two, and Bob Crichton, Fred England, and John Palmer...

Author: By Jack Spbatte, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

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