Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things I like about TIME is the way you report seemingly unimportant happenings which turn out to be highly symptomatic of the swiftly passing parade of mankind...
...called significant trivia. It is not world shaking. It can be amusing, sad, tragic, inspiring, or downright funny, but it is revealing. It is generally about people. Sometimes it makes headlines, but more often it is buried in the back pages of a local newspaper. TIME likes to report incidents like these because they illuminate-sometimes more brightly than a major news story-the kind of world we live in and the kind of people who make the world what it is. Some examples from TIME...
...they moved into North China and Inner Mongolia, the Japanese replanted the poppy fields that had once provided the war lords with revenue. They opened big narcotic factories; a report from Kalgan said that the local heroin plant produced enough each day (50 kilograms) to supply 15 times the world's legitimate needs. In Peiping, Tientsin and other cities, the Japs opened hundreds of opium dens with signs proclaiming "Good Taste . . . High Quality . . . Comfortable Beds." They peddled narcotic patent medicines for females, narcotic candy for children. Degradation reached a nadir in Mukden's red-light alleys, where dying...
Tommy Manville, 51, white-haired Peter Pan who has married seven Wendys, and three weeks ago went through the legal farce with Wife No. 8 (Georgina Campbell), was still flying in & out of temperamental windows. A patrolman's routine written report at the Mamaroneck, N.Y. station house: "At 7:32 p.m. I was detailed to Mr. Manville's residence. Mr. & Mrs. Manville were having a family argument and Mr. Manville requested that I stand by for awhile. On detail...
Applause, with a scattering of hosannas, greeted Harvard's $60,000 report on General Education in a Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week brought a belated, resounding Bronx cheer from the far left. Wrote British-born Author Alban Dewes (Who Was Socrates?) Winspear in the Communist New Masses: "Unsophisticated freshmen who enter Harvard College assume that they are entering an institution devoted to the unbiased search for truth. This [report] makes it only too clear that they are to enter a slick machine for indoctrination and reactionary propaganda...