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Of N. A, P. A's 300 members, 35 turned up at Chicago's Palmer House last week. The oldest member was not there. Charles William Smith. 83, stayed in Haverhill, Mass, where he still publishes his Tryout, a pretentious 24-pager. Few years ago the Association bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: a. j.'s | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

August newspapers, as everybody knows, are unlike the newspapers of any other month. In August the temperature rises higher than the melting-point of even hard-headed city editors, and almost anything may happen. The reader, too, contributes to the confusion. Some newspaper headlines are hard to decipher in mid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

¶ To a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Hoover given by the League of Republican Women the President sent a note of good wishes and encouragement. When Mrs. Frank Mondell, the league's president, muttered: "I can't read his writing," Mrs. Hoover leaned close to her, helped her decipher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

It should he the task of the Consultant on Careers to explain that the halycon professions are shot with drabness and to decipher some of the more homely truths of the business world. It is not positions which undergraduates need so much as information about the fields towards which they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSULTANT ON CAREERS | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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