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...still fighting hard against the machine last week. In Chicago, seasoned liars were still holding out against the lie detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Machine | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Machine | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...Small Copper Box. Snow and his brother, Donald, headed for the island last week with a shovel and an electronics device like a mine detector, used in locating metals. Five times they dug down, found buried hulks. Their sixth excavation hit the jackpot: a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France and Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Yo-ho-ho and a Radar Set | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...touch with him. Its walls are lined with yards of scientific books and papers, and its closets are packed less with clothes than with new products and gadgets-fabrics made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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