Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio can even provide a new personality, or renovate an old one. A Twin Falls, Idaho matron who reported that she had "always suffered from inferiority and insecurity" was chosen "Queen for a Day." "Now," she testifies, "I can meet anyone, look them in the eye and feel equal...
Every Man a King. Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
...authors discuss is bounded on the north by Hanover, N.H., on the west by Ithaca, N.Y. and on the south by Annapolis, Md. And even in this narrow province there are local differences. Harvard men, say the Dartmouth authors, try to act indifferent; a Williams man "always manages to look as though he has just been out for a stroll to see how the new colt is faring...
...hotels and list trains for all college towns. Girls are warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
Were the editorial writers doing any enlightening? Said Hutchins: "Look at what you did to the report of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press." Hutchins, who was chairman of the commission (TIME, March 31, 1947), said some editorial writers just plain lied about the report, and had ignored its criticisms...