Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, TIME'S Art Editor Alexander Eliot rolled a sheet of paper into his typewriter and carefully composed a memo to Senior Editor Edward Cerf. The memo developed an idea that Eliot had been trying out on his friends in the art world and his colleagues, including TIME Art Director Michael Phillips and myself. "We now have the opportunity," Eliot wrote, "of producing the first really handsome historical survey of American art ever published. The raw material for such a book is already ours." By raw material, Eliot meant an impressive collection of 1,069 color plates printed...
From Virginia's Langley Air Force Base came evidence that the downhold has reached to smaller items. Ruled Deputy Base Commander Harold P. Sparks: street lights will stay off at night, air conditioners must be shut down, motor vehicles left unwashed, pencils and paper clips ordered only by emergency requisition. Moreover, announced Colonel Sparks, patrons at the base commissary were requested to return paper shopping bags for reuse...
Margaret's many friends in Atlanta were stunned and saddened. Cried Dog Fancier D. S. Estes, who had plugged for Margaret's appointment as southeastern representative for the American Spaniel Club: "It was like picking up the paper and reading that President Eisenhower was a spy for the Communists...
Daydream à Deux. Box F-1794 turned out to be the Sketch, which promptly cooked up the Win-A-Man stunt, put Powell on the payroll as its "Bowler-Hat Superman." Thousands of letters poured in to the paper, from spinsters, jokers (one chap needed a chap to trim his corns), enlisted men who wanted an officer to serve them breakfast...
When the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg. Orr found out the secret: the Germans were using a "Magnetophon"' recorder with a magnetic tape far superior to familiar paper tapes or wire. The recording of a speech by Hitler was erased from a captured tape and a speech of Ike's recorded on the same tape for rebroadcasting. But the erasure was muffed and, in the middle of Ike's talk. Hitler's voice broke in loudly. Orders quickly came to manufacture some new tape. Orr tracked down Dr. Fritz Pflaumer, who had developed the original magnetic tape...