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Luxury. Next morning as the Williamsburg moved up Chesapeake Bay in cheering sunshine, he slept until seven o'clock-shamelessly abandoning his habit of rising at 5:30. The morning after that, with the yacht moving north in the open Atlantic, he slept until nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Independent Man | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...cornerstones of Hearstian journalism is righteous editorial indignation which leads to crusades and, hopefully, to bigger circulation figures. Hearst editors are prepared at a moment's notice to turn the heat up under such standbys as vivisection and habit-forming drugs. Last week they were given a new target: salacious books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Virtue's Reward | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...moves via "PreWi" (rhymes with peewee), a highly mechanized common carrier that calls itself "copy boy for the press of the world." PreWi was organized by a syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from a Normandy beachhead on D-day plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble at PreWi | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Spectators and delegates in the Paris arena last week watched him at work and saw a trained soldier-not a robot, but a quick-witted, iron-nerved fighter, attentive to the word from his superior, who reacts in disciplined grooves of mental habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Old Rock Bottom | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...nobody remembers for sure. Every Wednesday morning, a dogged little army of free-lance cartoonists trudges the rounds of magazine offices in midtown Manhattan to hawk their wares. They are the funnymen who draw the little back-of-the-book panels that have put millions of readers into the habit of leafing through the ad pages. Grateful advertising men call them "stoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: This Little Gag Went... | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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