Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Astaire took a look at sister-in-law Adele's new mink coat and commiserated: "Too bad it isn't female." A little research on mink sex convinced Adele (Mrs. Kingman Douglass) that the skins of female minks really are more delicate and finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat...
Playwright Franken has a pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
Just as there are people who enjoy batting their heads against a wall there are the ski-jumpers. But ski-jumping isn't as dangerous as it sounds. There are more people killed or injured each year hunting sharks with knives or playing Russian roulette, than in slat sailing. In a recent article Art Devlin claimed jumpers are hurt only once in every thousand jumps, but Lloyds of London is still loath to take any policies in the ski-jumping field...
...senior editors, the copy desk sends them to the circles' center, Managing Editor Matthews. From the start of the work week he has been reading papers, magazines, dispatches, trying to get the "feel" of the week's news, to figure out what is important and what isn't. He has probably sent out 40 or 50 notes to editors and writers. These include suggestions ranging from an outline of the lead story in National Affairs to a nice phrase from the Economist. A dozen times a day, he is in touch with his senior editors and with...
...that isn't how TIME asked to be judged. It said that the public was badly informed, and that TIME could correct that defect. In a way, the public is better informed than it was 25 years ago, and TIME has had a hand in that improvement. But in a deeper sense, the public is not better informed than a generation ago. The techniques of communication are progressing at a rate slower than the growth of what "the intelligent man" needs to know...