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Certainly the movement itself has invited the ironist's eye. Foreigners have traditionally regarded American women with a sort of wary bemusement; they seemed a race of cool, assertive, pampered and sometimes savagely domineering women. In 1898, the Scots traveler James F. Muirhead observed, with what was surely a chauvinist's exaggeration: "Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex." Yet now the New Feminists assert-an irony that does not invalidate the argument-that it is they who are dominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Woman, 1972 | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...National Association of Broadcasters said that it would ignore the NAB prohibition of whisky commercials. The dissenting member was none other than the prestigious radio station of the New York Times, WQXR. Soon after it pronounced that all the booze is fit to broadcast (after 10:30 p.m., anyhow) Muirhead's Scotch and Schenley bought all the available time slots, worth up to $70,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Moving the Spirits | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...DESMOND MUIRHEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using the Brain | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...director of the Program, Peter P. Muirhead, said his agency had "to operate on the basis that the best judge of need is the institution itself. We cannot substitute our judgement for theirs...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Colleges Protest Way Grants Were Allotted | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Health Center also reported yesterday that it had admitted four patients suffering from "upper respiratory infection." Mrs. Patricia D. Muirhead, Head Nurse, stated that there would be no testing for Asian...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Twenty Students Have Influenza; Some Cases May Be 'Asian Flu' | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

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