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Cudlipp, a working-class Welshman who at 25 became editor of the Sunday Pictorial, denies that sex looms large in the overhauled paper. The country has entered what he calls the "do-it-yourself" sex age, he says, and Britons no longer need titillation from the tabloids. To prove the point, one Mirror executive held up a picture of a demurely necklined deb and declared: "I defy you to find her cleavage." Nobody bothered to search, for the Mirror can still be counted on to reflect racier stuff. Only last week it ran a picture of Kim Novak that posed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sex, Sensation & Significance | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...owned increased from 23 million to 39 million, and the 1962 retail dollar volume of instruments, sheet music and accessories sales was $630 million-more than 2½ times what it was in 1950 and more than seven times what it was in 1940. According to the current growth rate, do-it-yourself music (as opposed to records, concert and opera going) will be a billion-dollar business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The Sound of Music | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Many of the world's impatiently developing nations almost inevitably turn to a form of do-it-yourself foreign aid: simply nationalizing any foreign-owned properties around. Often the biggest banks and businesses belong to foreigners, and the hosts suffer from both the weakness of envy and the need for cash. Last month Burma's government nationalized 14 foreign banks, and this month Nyasaland seized a German-controlled brewery on the pretext that its beer was designed to lull natives out of any fight for independence. Last week in Manhattan, even while seeking U.S. aid, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governments: The Grabbers | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...seemed like such a good idea, right after World War II, for those Americans for whom a house had always been a dream house. The shell home came along, providing an inexpensive (average cost: $3,000), wall-to-wall do-it-yourself kit that was finished on the outside but left the interior up to the buyer. The shell house industry that started out so promisingly has just gone through one of the crudest shakeouts in business history, and is emerging a vastly smaller but much stronger part of the nation's $25.6 billion housing business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Shell Shock | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...separate branch of vanity theater consists of hobbyists who are whacking plays together as a form of avocational therapy. Last season, off-Broadway saw the do-it-yourself dramas of a policeman, a dentist and a chiropractor, not to forget J. I. Rodale, a millionaire dietary fanatic who contends that a major source of evil in the modern world is an overconsumption of sugar, a condition he believes to be dangerously prevalent among drama critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Off-Broadway Reckoning | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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