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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article [TIME, Aug. 22] on romance comic magazines and their unusually good sales, you say: "The trend was so terrific that some of the old-style confession magazines confessed that they were in trouble." Presumably the trouble referred to was financial trouble, inasmuch as you quote from my midyear letter to our stockholders which reported a loss in the second quarter of 1949 of $11,635, after showing a profit in the first quarter...
...Mahwah, N.J. were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
From now on, each fraternity would have its own wing in one of the new buildings, a separate entrance and a private dining hall. But it would now be squarely under the eyes and thumbs of the university. Moaned one stalwart Greek-letter man: "The moat is just a grave-Wriston dug it for the frats...
...drum up business for its London-Rome route, British European Airways sent a letter to 7,200 Roman. Catholic clergymen in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was no ordinary promotion letter; it was in Latin and it urged the priests to visit Rome during the Holy Year...
...Said the letter: "The fact that the Venerable Bede was able to travel to Rome nine times during his life* demonstrates clearly the miserable condition of our time, in which one moves about Europe with the utmost difficulty . . . But . . . B.E.A. truthfully promises to deliver your person at Rome in a mere seven hours . . . and all for the price of LIII libras...