Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer of popular fiction* that usually (thank God) winds up on best-seller lists and in the movies, may I be one of my craft to blush publicly for Taylor Caldwell's letter. . . . TIME giggles at us "popular writers" in a silly effort to convince the public that it is literate enough to appreciate Henry Miller and Joyce. We don't fool you and you don't fool us. We only envy you because you have God's unlisted telephone number and we have only bosomy women and sinewy men to work with...
...report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training (TIME, June 9) seemed to have popular approval. Editorial writers largely cheered it, and the latest Gallup poll showed 74% of U.S. citizens in favor of enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on his 16-point preparedness program. Last week, speaking as chairman of the newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. military weakness is accelerating...
...opponents of U.M.T. had a potent spokesman, too. With typical disregard of what appeared to be popular approval, Ohio's Senator Bob Taft last week declared he would fight "conscription . . . to the bitter end." U.M.T., said Taft, was wasteful and obsolete. "Conscription was no insurance of victory in France, Italy, or Germany." It would improve neither the morals, discipline, nor health of U.S. youth. "The Army wants boys for twelve months consecutively because it wants to change their habits of thought, to make them soldiers, if you please, for the rest of their lives." It was unAmerican. "Militarism...
...attendance at P.C.A.-sponsored rallies for Wallace had warmed P.C.A. leaders. Now, through the shimmering heat, they saw "a mounting tide of popular opposition to the policies and leadership of both political parties." A new party might be necessary, they decided, to give the voters "a clear choice between progressive and reactionary candidates for President." Main economic plank in their program: the nationalization of coal mines, railroads, and electric power...
...Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors, are out to make it. To draw the crowds, most theater managers are trying to buy big Broadway and Hollywood names for their barbershop-window posters. Most sought-after star: Tallulah Bankhead. Most popular plays: Dream Girl and Joan of Lorraine...