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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-one years is a long time as magazines go. Most of the famous magazines of 1923 are gone now-Scribner's, Century, World's Work, Outlook, McClure's, Everybody's, Review of Reviews, Vanity Fair, Forum, Metropolitan, The Literary Digest. Of the ten leading advertising media today only three were in business when TIME began. And of the 13 other magazines which started publication the same year only two remain. So I think every one of us at TIME is deeply conscious on this 21st birthday that any magazine must change and grow with...
Philip Van Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
Last week the President & Commander in Chief ordered a fast and hardboiled review of 5,000,000 occupational deferments. Because of past leniencies, the Commander in Chief's Selective Service was 200,000 short of its quota. As a result, the Army had to reduce its college training program (TIME, Feb. 28) and "emasculate" certain units, said the Commander in Chief. He said: "We are well-equipped in food and munitions, but production has drawn overheavily on our stock of manpower...
...Savoy. Said Winston Churchill of Allied policy in Italy: "We are working ... to aid ... the King and Badoglio. . . . [When we] enter Rome . . we shall review the whole position . . . The various Italian [anti-Fascist] parties . . . have ... no constitutional authority. . . . When you have to hold a hot coffeepot it is better not to break off the handle until you are sure that you can get another equally convenient and serviceable, or at least that you will find a dish cloth handy...
...King shushed a Parliamentary de bate, embarrassing to his Government and McNaughton. He asked opposition party leaders to review, in the privacy of his office, the secret dispatches in the case...