Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avenue of cancer research. He was intrigued by the action of an antivitamin substance that apparently starved cancer cells, and so impressed was the American Association for the Advancement of Science that Laurence was asked to rewrite his Times story-in suitably abstruse prose-for the association's journal...
Until 1961, Curtis, which publishes the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home, and a children's magazine named Jack and Jill, had rarely had a bad year. Then the tide turned with sickening swiftness, and it began to look as if Curtis might never again have a good season. The company lost $4,200,000 in 1961, a staggering $18.9 million in 1962. Advertising accounts evaporated along with profits, and the word spread that Curtis was mortally...
...writing on early society is a high point of the book. In "Leaves Culled From the Journal of a Lady of Fashion," the life of Ward McAllister's day comes through better than his memoirs relate it. "Breakfast at Delmonico's--1893" tells of young gentlemen spending lively, idle afternoons in days long since past. Frank Crowninshield, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, considers society from 1888 to the post war age in "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat." Dividing his recollections into the Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable...
Beginning this week, Manhattan's biggest newspaper bargain, the 15? Sunday News will go to 20?. It will still be less than the Times and the Herald Tribune (30?) and the Journal-American...
...argue so passionately against "state control"? He was "naive enough," he answers, to take seriously Lenin's promise that the state would "wither away." He admits: "It may seem naive, and even stupid, on the part of one who had worked for years on a journal which specialized in public affairs [the New Republic] that he should have paid so little attention to recent changes in the income tax laws." He reports sheepishly that when he finally went to a lawyer friend with the report that he had not filed an income tax return for seven years, the stunned...