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...suggest a full page in every interested news organ throughout the land, to impress this historic last paragraph upon a public which doesn't so much need full pages of studied information as it does full paragraphs burned deep into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When a general informed the Queen of an African victory but ventured to suggest further military reforms, Ponsonby reworded the Queen's furious reply into compliments on the victory (and a paragraph covering the unhappy gaff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Letter-Opener | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder at Retail | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increasing reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word-groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educational Clinic Tests and Corrects Reading Speeds and Comprehension | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

Look over that paragraph, or did you get it the first time...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/12/1943 | See Source »

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