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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 20 percent figure is based on the expectation that next year's Council will spend $5000, as did this year's. There is considerable room for a reduction of this figure. The largest expenditure this year was $1550 for the NSA, most of which went for representatives' expenses to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

Quick's 20,000-copy test run went on sale on newsstands in eight cities from Philadelphia to Tacoma-but not in Manhattan, where Editor & Publisher Cowles had dreamed it up. With Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Busier & Busier | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

A firm believer in interfaith understanding, Editor Stewart, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the God Beat | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Small publishing houses devoted to science fiction such as Weinbaum turned out have been mushrooming during the last few years, and the business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inconspicuous Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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