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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hong Kong, born of opium and piracy, fat with a century's pleasure and profit, died last week in a blaze of glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hong Kong: A Way of Life Dies | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...voted that all insulin be checked by the Pure Food & Drug Administration for strength and purity. Reason: Last week the patent of the University of Toronto (where insulin was discovered) expired, and the University lost its exclusive right to oversee the production of insulin, which it has done without profit for nearly 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carrots Are Not Enough | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Backer of This Week is old (77) Joseph Palmer Knapp, son of the founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., chief stockholder of Crowell Publishing Co., who also owns Alco-Gravure, world's biggest rotogravure printers, which makes a "modest" profit printing This Week. Its editor is Mrs. William Brown Meloney (mother of Novelist William Brown Meloney), 59, tiny, fragile, grey-haired, who now edits the magazine from her suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. In her 40-year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Different This Week | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Secret of Will Cuppy's success is that he can simultaneously be insane and urbane. Says Naturalist William Beebe: "When a scientist states a fact that ends it. But Cuppy is not satisfied and carries it further." Few will profit more from the book than the fast-vanishing Ivory-billed Woodpecker, for whom the author has sound advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urbanity's Insanity | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Poems: 1940 (Yardstick Press; $2.50) is selected by Oscar Williams with his eyes glued on his belief that "The poet is a man without a profit or any other kind of ulterior motive. He is free to tell the truth as he sees it, whether it is disaster or the resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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