Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three seasons, 152-lb. Bronko McGugan has diligently warmed the bench as fifth-string center. At the University of Oklahoma he got none of the footballers' privileges except that of hurling himself against 220-lb. varsity men in practice. He did that so enthusiastically that two hefty teammates once decided to put him in his place: they double-blocked him out of the play, scooped him up and carried him over to the sidelines, where they plopped down on top of him. But Bronko was the first to bounce up. Said he, cheerfully: "Nice block, fellows." When the coaches...
...fact was that every big magazine had fewer newsstand buyers-but more subscribers-than a year ago. (Some were converting newsstand buyers into subscribers, to stabilize their circulation.) Most circulations were up a shade, and none had lost more than 90,000 in the first half of 1948. It was the ups & downs of newsstand sales that had hit the Ladies' Home Journal: its average sale for the six-month period was above its base of 4,500,000, but the April, May and June issues had fallen below it. So now the base was being lowered...
Thus Look bragged that it "delivers reader traffic from cover to cover ... in every income group"; the Journal that "more women buy the Journal issue after issue." TIME advertised itself as "the one major weekly whose circulation has doubled since the beginning of World War II." But none matched one magazine's proud boast that "our readers have more inside toilets than most people...
Sitting & Thinking. The Institute he presides over has neither teachers nor pupils in the ordinary sense; some "faculty members" never teach a class. Says Oppenheimer: "None of the usual apparatus of education will be found at the Institute, nor the people usually regarded as still capable of education." The Institute is perhaps the world's most exclusive school (almost everybody has a Ph.D.), but many of its members would deny that it is a school...
...stunt resolved into a none-too-subtle suggestion that well heeled alumni should share the wealth with Princeton. Crimson rooters were befuddled by the whole affair because at a distance, one of the tigers looked very much like a whiskerless rodent...