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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertising; training courses in behavior for box office personnel, ushers, concessionaires and house managers; a credo pledging the theater to fair dealing, courtesy, comfort, efficient operation-with enforcement of ethical practices by the Better Business Bureau. Bernays would also harness women's clubs, youth groups, universities, cultural leaders, etc. into a vast public relations campaign for the theater...
...wonderful world of science-fiction pulps is populated with lithe heroes, bosomy heroines, bug-eyed monsters and space-suited villains from Mars. It is also garishly illuminated with the latest pseudo-scientific jargon. Readers of Thrilling Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, etc. take such words as teleportation, parastasis and rhodon-deracts in stride...
...broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell, etc...
...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
...International Air Transport Association) held a hurried meeting, worked out a temporary solution. From Oct. 1, until permanent rates are set, all transatlantic fares-both ways-will be at the $350 rate, thus setting a new rate in London of ?125. But from London eastward to Cairo, New Delhi, etc., fares will remain unchanged at their old rate in pounds, francs, etc. That meant that U.S. airlines will have to take as much as a 30% cut in dollar fares to compete. On the sea lanes, Britain's luxury liners, a prime source of dollar revenue, promptly raised their...