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Under a new cover policy, the monkeys and gag cartoons that have been almost a Collier's trademark, are out. The redesigned cover will display action photographs in color; this week's shows a drum majorette doing a split in mid-air (see cut). The masthead has also been changed. Oscar Dystel, new managing editor, brought in a new art director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Dressed Up | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...many years I have dealt with the products of our elementary and high school education mills. No longer do I gag over weird English, amateurish spelling, fuzzy thinking and inability to add and multiply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Exit Victoria | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...House Rules Committee to kill a bill carrying what he called the "socialistic" provisions of the Senate's Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for slum clearance and 500,000 low-cost housing units. The Senate balked at his own housing bill which he rammed through the House under a gag rule. It extended tax privileges to private builders, guaranteed their profits and mortgages. Cried New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "A monstrosity . . . The veterans have been flim-flammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last Throes | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Guess I'm kind of morbid," he asserts. "I'd sorta figured on setting up a little altar in the corner of the room and worshipping the darned thing. Just for a gag you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curio-Seeking Gold Coaster Hunts Dwarf Human Head | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

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