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...worked for his father's newspapers. He broke in on the Washington Post. For the last 2½ years, he has been a reporter and then a music and drama critic for the Winston-Salem, N.C. Journal. Six months ago, Publisher Ethridge decided that his son ought to "cram as much experience into his skull" as it would hold. He persuaded Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, to try an experiment in lend-lease. In return for Rothermere's hiring Mark Jr. on a temporary basis, Publisher Ethridge agreed to hire a Daily Mailman. As of last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lend-Lease | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Iowa-born Nila Cram Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Saturday afternoons in the Fall were the gayest times of all for students and Burke alike. Sometimes two or three men would cram into the booth with him and get the "best view in the Square" as the Band marched by, and often Burke would follow the Band to the Stadium to watch the games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officer Burke Retires After 15 Years in a Traffic Booth | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

Daily Herald. "The Pic" now in third place with a 4,734,000 circulation, manages to cram its pages with sex, invariably in the guise of deploring pornography and impropriety. Sample: when a schoolmaster and his 10-year-old girl pupils went off into the woods after watching a school sex-instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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