Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage...
...answer to Mr. Robert W. Miller's comment about the used-car dealers [TIME, June 13], I would like to inform him that there are many honest car dealers . . . [who] have refrained from taking money under the table and collecting bonuses...
These are only two examples of the steadily increasing associations we are having with our readers overseas. Our Latin American edition, like our other International editions, is bringing us a multitude of interesting visitors. Last month 30 members of the Brazilian press turned up at the TIME & LIFE Building for a look behind the scenes and conversations with members of our editorial staff. A fortnight ago Chilean Economy and Commerce Minister Alberto Baltra came to town and was entertained at dinner by TIME Senior Editor Francis Brown. These visits are a most agreeable and advantageous way of helping keep...
...that only the greatest modern men of letters-Joyce, Mann,, Eliot-have been able to take without being engulfed, into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...
...Noble farm (named for a former owner) is where he spends the longest stretch of the year. He passes his time there, reading history and biography, sometimes working around the rugged mountain farm. When he gets to the Homer Noble farm the arrival is, in a geographical way, something like the one he wrote about not long ago in another sense...