Word: pamphlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uphill campaign for California's governorship weren't enough of a load, U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions...
Bootless but commendable is the campaign by Toledo's Planned Parenthood League to control birth by pamphlet [July 7]. It recognizes an imminent population problem-even for the prosperous...
...Congratulations on your baby. But since you want this baby to have all the time and care you are able to give, you probably prefer not to have another too soon." In the past year, 14,000 pamphlets with these words have been sent to Ohio parents in and around Toledo. The sender: Toledo's Planned Parenthood League. Last December, soon after his tenth child was born, William Kunisch, a Roman Catholic mailman, received such a pamphlet in his own mail, promptly decided that a rebuttal was needed. With the help of his wife and the advice of Father...
Once upon a time, and a very leisurely time it was, a novel resembled a sheaf of obituary notices; it took various characters from the cradle to the grave and firmly left them there. Nowadays, when a novel may resemble anything from an unrhymed poem to an unprintable pamphlet or an analyst's case book, there is something refreshing about this old-style trilogy (its component novels were published in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but this is the first U.S. publication of all three in a package). Most remarkable fact about this work: Novelist...
...Ridiculous," cried Knight, who claimed that he never saw the pamphlet before last week. "I find it farfetched and fantastic to read anything into it other than the fact that several party registration switches were involved." By week's end it was clear that Christopher's charges had not hurt Goodie's chances at all: he won the full convention's endorsement...