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...Ozark hills, near Vienna, Mo., a carpenter named Henry Westerman was killed by a delayed reaction from a hen's egg. Nineteen years ago a 12-year-old girl named Edna Adkins wrote her name and address on it with a pencil. The egg was sold, shipped to St. Louis, served hard boiled in a restaurant. Westerman got it, read it, ate it. Charmed, he looked up Edna, courted and married her. They had five children, the oldest of whom was a boy named Gene. Last week, because Edna had decided she liked Neighbor Ben French better than...
...TIME researchers call their "bible." It catalogues sources of information on almost every possible news subject, and every one of TIME'S 55 researchers has a copy. Of course the researchers supplement this book with many other procedures to "block that boner" (for example, they are required to pencil a dot over every word in every article to show they have checked it)-and in addition, six or more writers and editors work on every story...
...pencil using silver instead of lead...
...nearly a month, Moscow's censors had hardly touched blue pencil to any correspondent's copy (TIME, Nov. 19). But Randolph Churchill, the conceited son of a great man, was still being censored...
...Prices. The Federal Government prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...