Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will television put newspapers out of business? To help find out, the New York Times made a five-day test-yourself survey. Last week, at a meeting of the New York State Publishers' Association, the Times'''s Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger announced the comforting results. The Times is practically untelevisable...
Last week, the liberal Manchester Guardian emitted a suspicious humph: "Putting all this nonsense together, it looks as though Lord Beaverbrook is trying by his own peculiar methods to help the Tory overtures for a Liberal-Conservative alliance . . . Lord Beaverbrook is losing touch...
Some of the steam was taken out of Billy Rose's pipe dreams last week. The Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be able to have a 1948-49 season after all, and without Billy's help. The season would start late-possibly not until the first of December-and be only 16 or 17 weeks long...
...fire, his daughter has just eloped with a man who was seen coming out of a Henry Wallace rally . . . and he has had an automobile accident that has broken his back, fractured his skull and crushed both legs-is still able to crawl to the microphone and help the announcer explain the big contest and where you mail the box tops...
Steady Flying. Of course, Operation Vittles does not have to count its cost ($260,000 daily), as money-losing U.S. commercial airlines do. Still, it may help U.S. commercial operators solve some problems...