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...cross between a tabloid and a magazine, came out during the strike. PM did not capitalize on the situation by turning itself into a real newspaper, but succeeded in quadrupling its 150,000 circulation by being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced to depend for most of its news on radio stations, which expanded newscasts and quoted from comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Three-Day Dimout | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Mowrer will speak on "The War and future", drawing for his material from his world wide experience as a writer. College students are invited to attend the talk, which is sponsored by the Radcliffe forma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT TO SPEAK AT RADCLIFFE | 11/20/1942 | See Source »

...outstanding and gets a book value of $31 a share. He forgets that the common was sold for $100 a share. As the capitalization increased to 850,000 shares, assets increased by $10,000,000. Mr. Dohr should have divided $36,849,663 and gotten $43.35 as his pro-forma book value. But it doesn't make any difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Address by the President of the University, including a report of the contents of the package sealed in 1836 by President Josiah Quincy (to be opened at a pro forma meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association in the Faculty Room, University Hall, on Tuesday, September 8), and the sealing of a new package to be opened by the President of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Class of Harvard's Fourth Century Will Have 1050 Members---Many Returning for Tercentenary | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield; the seven-man line on defense. On offense, almost every line man has the job of blocking one assigned opposing lineman, leaving the entire backfield free to run interference for the ball carrier, "power ahead of the ball." On defense the man-for-man assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football: Midseason | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

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