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...Publicist Bernays and Publicist Miller were belaboring each other as enthusiastically and skilfully as they knew how. What they were battling over was Clyde Miller's Institute for Propaganda Analysis (TIME, Oct. 11), which has been sending monthly bulletins to educators, publicists, editors and others, telling how to detect propaganda, denned as "expression of opinion or action deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of others with reference to predetermined private ends." Edward Bernays sent to his own mailing list, covering the same groups, a broadside "to dissipate any public hope for important accomplishment" by Mr. Miller...
...palate. He gets recognizable syllables by various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...
...United States Lawn Tennis Association, ruling body of U. S. amateur tennis, keeps a sharp eye on all promising junior players to detect, if possible, embryonic Davis Cuppers. For, blushing unseen among the juniors might be another Donald Budge, Robert Riggs, Frank Parker or Joseph Hunt-all of whom started playing first-rate tennis before they were 18 (junior-division age limit). The age limit for the boys' division is 15, but there is no law against a boy or a junior playing in an older division. Vincent Richards won the U. S. men's doubles championship with...
...presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present. More important still, they will be able to detect carriers-people who carry the virus bodies about with them, infecting others, yet who are themselves immune to the disease...
...Popolo d'Italia, personal newsorgan of Protector-of-Islam Benito Mussolini, editorialized: "No one ever entrusted anyone with a mandate to sow destruction and massacre in the Holy Land. . . . Whole streets are razed as punishment for acts whose perpetrators the British authorities are unable to detect and do not wish to investigate. . . . Laws which for thousands of years have guaranteed Justice to civilized mankind are openly trampled on and innocent citizens are punished for deeds for which they bear no responsibility. . . . The news from Palestine cannot but arouse a sense of horror throughout the civilized world...