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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These four advertisements about advertising (and two others) have now appeared in 41 million copies of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE. Those of you who read my Aug. 29 Letter will recall that I said we were running them to give as many people as possible more information about the way advertising works in the public interest. They presented six typical ways in which advertising helps to "create the demand that boosts the production that lowers the cost...
During his last turbulent years in public office, David Lilienthal had often turned the phrases over in his mind. They came easily last week as he wrote his letter to the President. "I submit herewith my resignation as chairman and member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ... to be effective at the close of business on December...
...letter was not a complete surprise (TiME, Nov. 28). Lilienthal had hinted broadly that, at 50, he had found it high time to divorce himself from Government salaries (present salary: $17,500) and start building for his own financial future. "These years have certainly been strenuous and exacting," he wrote, "but they have also been very rewarding, in every way except financially . . ." And, added articulate David Lilienthal, he had long wanted the chance to discuss the problems of the atom more freely "than is either feasible or suitable for one who carries specific public responsibilities...
...Three rivalry means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title is no longer at stake...
...expect to send a copy of this letter to the Boston Globe, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, the Crimson, and New York Times for release Tuesday morning, November 29th, 1949. I believe it expresses the opinion of most former Harvard football players...