Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all TIME'S correspondents and most of its writers and editors are former newspapermen. They are the same men (plus or minus a few pounds) who used to do their 2,000 words a day (or maybe an hour) and not be ashamed of the result. The newsmagazine idea sets up tougher professional standards, and the extra hours afford a chance to meet those standards...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...
After a few weather reports and records, CBS also got under way at 8 with a B-minus, hour-long movie (a boy photographer clicks with a big-city newspaper and a big-city girl). Du Mont continued with Singer Sylvie St. Claire, who relaxed on a sofa with a telephone and urged a melancholy baby to come to her. At 8:15., Du Mont offered a poor full-length movie-almost the only type that jealous Hollywood will allow its suspected rival...
...least as far as the CRIMSON was concerned, so in the interests of economy I did the rest of the work for the hour exam myself. The grade tells the story; on the essay question, answered largely with the material covered in my tutoring sessions, I got an A minus; on the short-answer questions, my own contribution, a C plus...
...other universities, the Student Progressive has gained in stature--physically, if in no other manner, The crudely made up. poorly printed offering of 1946 has been supplemented by a professional-looking little magazine that reminds the reader of nothing so much as a miniature Saturday Review of Literature--minus any artwork or photography...