Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menu. Hecht's family of magazines now includes: School and College Management, a monthly free to 32,000 U.S. educators (it pays for itself in advertising); Baby Care Manual (circ. 360,000), a quarterly distributed free to hospitals to give to new mothers; Your New Baby (circ. 400,000), another quarterly bought by diaper services and department stores for distribution to new mothers; Senior Prom (circ. 600,000), a 25? monthly for teen-age girls; and Varsity (circ. 250,000), a 25? bimonthly for high-school and college boys...
...taught to look out for themselves. The state commission had made a start in that direction by issuing a booklet: You and the Atomic Bomb, What To Do in Case of an Atomic Attack, for free and wide dissemination. Like the advice to Junior, it was a manual for survival. But the necessity went beyond that...
Shocking Booklet. Perhaps the greatest shock to British complacency last week was a little blue-covered booklet of 62 pages issued by H. M. Stationery Office entitled: Civil Defence Manual of Basic Training-Volume II, Atomic Warfare. The booklet described all the measures to be taken against atomic blast and radioactivity. At two shillings (28^), it was an immediate sellout...
...through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling Dianetics on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply "The Book," fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held dianetics parties, formed clubs, and "audited" (treated) each other...
...Famed calligraphers all. Ludovici Arrighi of Rome published the first manual for nonprofessionals in 1522. Edward Johnston, who died in 1944, was known as the "father of modern English calligraphy." Today's best-known English calligrapher: 55-year-old Alfred J. Fairbank...