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One of the biggest props under the boom is another kind of boom: the vast increase in the U.S. population. Last week, the National Industrial Conference Board warned businessmen that it was time they began taking the population boom into account. Said N.I.C.B.'s Business Record: "The significance. . . to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Baby Boom | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Barrault borrowed heavily from movie technique. Sets faded and others appeared with dreamlike ease and speed. Lights drifted, camera-like, from one scene to the next. Between some scenes, stagehands rearranged props in full view of the audience. To heighten the unreality, Barrault frequently used pantomime with a symbolic abstraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Kafka in Pans | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

There are 947 students in the biggest class at Berkeley. This sheep-dip style of education encourages short cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

On this theme, Holbrook Jackson, eminent British bibliophile, essayist and editor, begins a leisurely but purposeful wandering through the land of literature. He comments widely on the aims, techniques, and inner lives of writers from Horace to Hemingway, trying always to get behind the props and wings of the literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Collaborating Reader | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

"Kind of Stupid." Last week CBS's Ace was doggedly plugging away at a new script show, a projected variety program, new props for the Little Show. He was also putting the finishing touches on a new show for Jane. ''But she's pretty fussy," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aces Up | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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