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Gradually Washington came to recognize that the Secretary of Agriculture was something more than a rural curiosity. He was a man of ideas which he liked to ponder long and deeply. At first a number of braintrusters were enrolled among his aides -Rex Tugwell and Jerome Frank among them. But their idealistic social dreaming was not in the same key as Henry Wallace's slow digestion of ideas...
Some idea of the new pact's domestic popularity was given by the large number of prominent French politicians who went to hear a speech given in Paris the night of the signing by Alfred Duff Cooper, former British First Lord of the Admiralty. Warned Mr. Duff Cooper, who resigned because he could not "stomach" the Munich Pact: "War cannot be avoided by perpetual concessions...
Lusty competitors for the national advertisers' dollars are radio and mass circulation magazines. Oddest aspect of their rivalry is the dissimilarity of their respective yardsticks for sales effectiveness. Radio's known quantity, the number of sets within listening range of transmitting stations, are scaled down in order to ascertain the actual audience at a given moment. But magazines' known quantity, net paid circulation, is rarely scaled upward to ascertain the corresponding potential audience of a given issue...
Estimating a total potential U. S. reading public of 107,300,000 persons over nine years old, excluding the blind, deaf-mutes and inmates of institutions, LIFE's experts made 8,030 interviews to appraise the number of people who see, open and read some part of an average issue of Collier's, Liberty, LIFE, Satevepost, found that 14.8% were Collier's audience, 13% Liberty's 16.1% LIFE's and 12% Satevepost's. These net percentages were established after 5,700 more interviews eliminated exaggerators and nitwits through "confusion control" tests. When the final...
Certain classes and groups, from Radcliffe as well as from the University have been using the Victoria and find it most helpful in analyzing and truly appreciating the mortise of the world's finest poetry. During the coming year a number of lecturers will speak in the Poetry Room and use the records to illustrate their talks. By giving proper notice to the Curator, any group in the University may take over the room and have free use of the records...