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Stringent though the FTC ruling is, it is moderate as compared with the acrimonious bickering that preceded it. Each side called over 100 witnesses. Good -Housekeeping's Attorney Isaac W. Digges called the FTC charges "vague, uncertain, undefinite, confused, confusing, argumentative, ambiguous, self-contradictory, conclusory and unintelligible." Hearst Magazines General Manager Richard Berlin charged that the attack on Good Housekeeping's 35-year-old seal business was inspired by subversive groups bent on destroying advertising altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tested & Not Approved | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Neatly rigged to permit Benny & friends to triumph, the Jell-O quiz was repeated this week. Posing as a nine-year-old wizard on a quiz board composed of William Shakespeare, aged 6, Isaac Newton, 7, Lady Godiva, 6, and Fred Allen, 8, Benny made a great to-do about coaxing the Quiz Kids into telling him what sort of questions he will be asked when he shows up on their show later. As guest of the Quiz Kids, Benny will be primed on gags but not on questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Benny & Masterminds | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Averaging about 60 miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: spring and Something Else | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...onetime Chief of Chaplains of the A. E. F., now on a year's leave of absence to act as the Federal Council of Churches' liaison official between churches and chaplains; Bishop John Francis O'Hara of the Roman Catholic Army and Navy diocese; Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia and a chaplain with Pershing in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchmen in Uniform | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...When Isaac Pinkham lost his shirt in the 1873 panic, his wife began selling a mysterious, home-brewed potion she had long given away to distraught friends. The potion soon overflowed into a national panacea for all kinds of female complaints. After Lydia died, Aroline Pinkham Gove and Charles Pinkham, each with a 50% share of their mother's business, kept her face enshrined on every package, signed her name in answering 100,000 letters a year from grateful or suffering women. By last year Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had netted Lydia and descendants well over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Lydia Loses | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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