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TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose-"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans-through the medium of pictures, art and color...
...result, he moralizes too much, stating explicitly what his story conveys, or should convey, by itself. Written as a movie scenario, Ape and Essence is burdened with a "narrator" who points the lesson line by line. Yet the book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization...
...realize that TIME endeavors to write up its news items in a way that is different and to convey much meaning in a few words, all of which is desirable, particularly in this day and age when too much is said about too little. It seems to me, however, that the adjectives applied to Cincinnati have accomplished no particular good, nor are they entirely accurate ... In our efforts to attract further industries to Cincinnati ... we are pointing out the many advantages Cincinnati has to offer to new industries and new people who are about to locate here, and naturally...
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated...
Learning that a seat was available on an Army transport plane, the correspondents chose the New York Times's Milton Bracker to convey their uncensored stories to Panama, where they could be filed. The next day Dozier found that he could get out on an Army plane to Panama himself. With Robert Shellaby, of the Christian Science Monitor, he "crawled, ran and sneaked to the embassy and, by jeep and bus, guarded by two soldiers, dashed to the airport...