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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost 150 libraries, corporations and universities have become charter subscribers not because Heritage will "look impressive on boardroom tables," but because, in the words of Eddie Rickenbacker, through Heritage "a real job can be done, which will bring about untold good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...pueblo. The old man spoke up for me and the guard, satisfied, admitted us into the unpaved courtyard crammed with prisoners. There was a big parade going on in another part of town, and I suppose the guards figured that no correspondent would pass up a good parade to look at a jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

This week, in the nation's first statewide election this year, Maine's citizens elected Representative Margaret Chase Smith to the Senate over the Democrats' Dr. Adrian H. Scolten, a Portland dermatologist and political newcomer. Trim, handsome Mrs. Smith, who looks as most clubwomen would like to look, becomes the first woman to be elected to the Senate entirely on her own merits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eastern Day | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...from some 2.000 readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Name for TV Wanted | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Current leaders in the competition are Gazio, Air-Pic, Opalook, I.C. and Kaladio. The top contender-Dekko-was borrowed from cockney slang. In the vernacular, dekko† means look (e.g., "Let's have a dekko at it") True to the leisurely traditions of many British contests, the Daily Express isn't sure just when it will announce the winner-maybe this week; maybe later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Name for TV Wanted | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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