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...idea looked like the hottest thing in the Curtis publishing empire since Cyrus Curtis picked up the Saturday Evening Post for $1,000 in 1897. At least, that's the way it looked to J. Frank Beaman. Beaman tried it out on his boss, Curtis President Walter D. Fuller: Americans love to enjoy themselves, spend billions on their vacations, but have no first-rate magazine to help them enjoy their fun & games...
...only house, at present, which could be manufactured chiefly of new materials and on a truly mass-production basis is one prefabricated in the ever-fertile imagination of R. Buckminster ("Dymaxion") Fuller (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943). With an eye to production by planemakers, the dreamhouse consists of an aluminum and plastic circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita...
Empty Glass. The East and West Coasts suffered from a new shortage -milk. Returning G.I.s, who got little milk abroad, had helped boost consumption to a new high, just when production was at its seasonal low. The Department of Agriculture promised that the new year will bring a fuller pail...
...President in Brazil. The man they did not elect that time, Getulio Vargas, took office anyway-by revolution-and overstayed his leave. Now, by staging the biggest popular election in Latin American history, Brazilians had marked the end of the long dictatorship and had set the stage for a fuller democracy than any they had ever enjoyed...
...World War II, Gordon N. Ray, a young Thackeray enthusiast, traveled to England on a money grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes...