Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while we're at it," she added, "we might just as well re-open the entries, just to see if Harvard has had any new ideas since Monday." So anyone with a name for a new magazine with literary bent can still get a crack at the prize--a free subscription to be presented by the first Annex subscriber and two tickets to a Boston show--just by dropping a card to Miss Tinker at 55 Garden Street...
Those of you who live overseas will receive the Current Affairs Test for the first time. It is scheduled to appear in our International editions, so that all of TIME'S readers can take a crack at it. We have tried to make the revived test a fair one-not too easy, not too hard-hoping you will have the same fun wrestling with it that we know many of you have had in the past...
...paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector's item. In time, the paper which...
...Crack-Up (RKO Radio) continues Hollywood's current series of easy lessons in psychiatry. For good measure, the picture also offers cops & robbers and a few rudimentary art lectures on the detection of bogus Old Masters...
...Crack-Up's slam-bang plot never makes a great deal of sense-but it contains some good, fast chases, a fire, a corpse in the dark museum basement and a train crash. Through all the energetic hurlyburly, the hero & heroine look convincingly confused and harried...