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...opinion, book advertising trades too much upon the sensational-when it has too little of the sensational to offer. If books were food or drug products-and some of them are all too often in the latter category-book publishers would be the principal recipients of FTC cease and desist orders ... The first requisite ... is a good product . . . One of the first things the publishers ought to do is to pick better books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Requisite | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...because it printed an editorial on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" stirred up a whirlpool of protest among former Swarthmore men now in University graduate schools, and Swarthmore President John Nason may soon be bombarded with letters from Cambridge attacking his cease and desist order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swarthmore Graduates Here Decry Ban on College Paper | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

President John W. Nason, in issuing the cease and desist order upon the paper asserted that the article in question "violated the canons of good taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swarthmore Press Silenced For View on Kinsey Report | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...murals? Artist Bernard Zakheim, who had painted one, found out last week what had happened to his. Visiting the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, Zakheim came upon a man busily pasting wallpaper over his mural history of medicine in California. After urging the paperhanger to desist, he bustled desperately off to find the dean of the college. Sorry, said the dean, "they are very interesting, but ... for years now faculty members have complained. The murals distract students attending lectures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last of a Mural | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...situation. This Assembly cannot stand by as a mere spectator while a member of the United Nations is endangered by attacks. "The United States delegation will, therefore, submit to the Assembly a resolution which will contain a finding of responsibility; call upon Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to cease and desist from rendering further assistance or support to the guerrillas in Greece." The resolution would establish a commission "to make appropriate recommendations to the states concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Projection & Accusation | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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