Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circ. 3,000,000) and 15-year-old Family Circle (1,200,000), which is sold in Safeway and other chain stores. American Family, a new version of an idea Mullen tried during the war, will sugar-coat its articles on family problems with cartoons, recipes, fiction and gossip about celebrities...
...legends to develop a "reasoned patriotism" in his pupils, without misleading them into thinking that the tales were sober history. Taught the right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...
Point. The basing point system, charged FTC, results in identical price quotations at any given destination. The companies using it "have calculated their delivery charges on the fiction that each shipment is made from one of a limited number of common basing points cooperatively used and recognized among producer respondents...
...most of some melodramatic scenes and have hooked together many close-ups of uncommon sensitiveness and force. But in spite of a considerable lavishing of talent and good intention, Black Narcissus remains a striking sample of bad art, combining the least attractive features of slick and long-haired fiction...
...merry-eyed Carmel Snow and her Harper's Bazaar delight. Dublin-born Mrs. Snow was editor of the American Vogue when Richard Berlin, boss of Hearst magazines, lured her away in 1932. (Today Harper's, like Town & Country, gets only the gentlest Hearstian supervision.) She and her fiction editors have bought and plugged such bylines as Virginia Woolf, Jean Stafford, Eudora Welty, Christopher Isherwood, Anna Kavan and Colette...