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In his ground-floor apartment, jammed with books, hung with of crowded with knickknacks, including herds of carved elephants trekking over shelves and mantel, Cummings entertains his friends. He sits in a straight chair tilted against the wall. Crumpled bills, spilled coins, dropped when he returned from his walk, strew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Alerted by a reader's tip, the Post found to its horror that Boston's Public Library was providing its patrons with Russian magazines and newspapers, e.g., Pravda and Izvestia and the Communist magazine New World Review, as well as with books by Lenin, Vishinsky and Karl Marx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Looping with the Post | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

When Mr. John Fox took over the Boston Post, he immediately began looking for Communism in Boston. He picked a good to look for it--the public library. There, Mr. Fox found the shelves filled with subversive literature written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. He bypassed these and went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poison on the Bookshelves | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Actually New World Review is not even on the Attorney General's list of subversive magazines, and anyone can subscribe to it through the mail. As a matter of fact, anyone who wants this magazine must tell the librarian why. But even if New World Review were an English translation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poison on the Bookshelves | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Grocery supermarkets stole a leaf from the dime stores when they began stocking their shelves with such traditional dime-store items as buttons, cosmetics and toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Woolworth's Supermarket | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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