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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...damn sight more important than some of the scientific papers." The big hit at a recent Pittsburgh convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics was a new kind of nursing bottle-a plastic job that seems to eliminate a few of the nuisances of baby-raising, including burps and constant bottle-boiling. The new bottle comes already sterilized, feeds the baby his milk without air, can be thrown away after one feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Boiling, No Burps | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Endowed with holidays until further notice, the school kids had nothing to fear but the end of the strike. Not so their parents, who had constant noisy reminders of the valuable time that was being lost. And not so the majority of the teacher-strikers, who could not 'forget a basic issue: Have teachers the right to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strike | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...find out, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Manufacturers Association offered 200 radios for the 200 best letters on the subject: "What I Think about Radio." By last week N.A.B. had over 100,000 letters (80% of them gushily friendly). Samples: ¶ "The radio has become a constant companion and friend. Of course, there are times when I become annoyed with my 'buddy' and then I am likely to turn a haughty back to it, only to return, repentant and lonely, after a few days. . . ." ¶ "I can always satisfy my desires in the wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Household Deity | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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