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...text, a reading dose readily digestible during an evening's commercials. There are a few short articles on the never-never world of TV, a page of generally toothless criticism, a crossword puzzle beamed at the intelligence quotient of the shoot-'em-up crowd. (Sample crossword puzzler: "Car 54, Where____ You?") Of late, the magazine has erupted in a rash of impressive bylines - Eleanor Roosevelt, Political Scientist Leo Rosten, U.S. President-to-be John F. Kennedy, who exhorted televiewers to demand more honesty in TV political coverage - in a deliberate campaign to gild Guide's public image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tiny Prodigy | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

This year again is a puzzler. After winning six in a row the Crimson lost the final of the Washington University tournament to Valparaiso, 68-66, and then defeated Carnegie Tech on the way East for a 7-3 record...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Basketball Team To Hit The Road | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...December's high-and his savings accounts are bursting. Despite all this, says baffled Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradiso, retail sales "still reflect the same kind of sluggishness we have had all along, but now it seems to be hanging on too darned long. It's a puzzler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Well-Heeled No-Show | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...President's office or in the family quarters. Lest she be accused of depriving the public of its treasures, she had accepted only canvases in museum storerooms or paintings that the museum could easily spare. The result: a White House gallery that was both a delight and a puzzler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Jacqueline Touch | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Tenebrous. A calm champion-the first boy to win since 1954-pudgy, pink-cheeked Joel slung an arm around tearful Bobby and quietly allowed that his only real puzzler had been intitule in an early round. Joel came equipped to win. The son of a lumber salesman, he reads four or five books a week, is starting Darwin's Origin of Species. And his spelling coach at Denver's Byers Junior High School is Teacher Ted Glim, producer of a co-champion two years ago, who shuns rote memorization. Glim starts with accurate pronunciation. "Then we go thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spellbound | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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