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...Paterson. In between patients and the writing of an autobiography (to appear next fall), gingery Bill Williams, 67, has been letting his eye roam over the industrial area of northern New Jersey and has been thinking about the patterns and meanings of U.S. life. The result is Paterson, a scrapbook of daily life as Americans live...
...looking through a scrapbook compiled during the 1920s, I came upon the following article from the March 14, 1927 issue of TIME, under Russia and the title "Orator Orating...
People seem to buy their yearbook to serve as sort of a slick-paper, permanently covered scrapbook of a class and its stretch at the College. Pick up 315 and thumb through it. You will find yourself pointing out your friends, discovering the name of the man across the hall, and looking for your own picture in the back of the Jubilee or in a crowd of 500 people around the Lampoon's steps. This is the present, contemporary function of 315. In a few years your reading focus may switch somewhat. 315 will become a reference volume, dedicated...
...from sprightly text on the activities of myriad teams and organizations; far too little about who was in those organizations. This policy carries over to its pictures. The "firing squad" photographs of groups shoulder-to-shoulder are largely gone, a shrewd move esthetically but a bad one for a scrapbook: it will seriously reduce the book's reference and grandchild value. When 315 does break down and run a firing squad, the names of the people are carefully omitted...
Benton's one-minute radio spots were pre-evaluated for crowd appeal, his comicstrip ads pretested for reader interest. He set up street-corner booths, stocked them with pretty girls, ran off five one-minute movies showing Benton the homebody (his wife showing off his scrapbook), Benton the internationalist (his trip inspecting ECA's Italian projects, aimed at the state's 239,000 Italians), Benton the statesman (flashes of Marshall, Eisenhower and Baruch endorsing his "Marshall Plan of Ideas...