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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Untelevisable Times | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Balaam Beaver | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Candy Under the Bed | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Foal the Drab | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Answers from Germany | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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