Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgium's Christian Socialists, who had fallen just short of an absolute majority (TIME, July 4), last week sought to form a coalition cabinet. Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland pledged an "unflinching" fight for return of exiled King Leopold III. The Liberal Party shunned "rash decisions" on the royal question; they wanted tax cuts first. The Socialists growled ominously: if Leopold came back, they would call a general strike. As the tense maneuvering between the parties continued, it seemed that Belgium's royal question would have no easy answer...
...short, the representatives of Tass were not primarily newsmen; they were Soviet agents...
...veteran Editor Edwin Balmer, who ruled out illustrations of girls in two-piece bathing suits, printed no fiction in which those who flaunted "the code" came to an unregenerate or glorified end. (By contrast, the June Cosmopolitan features an illustration of a boudoir nude, and captions a sympathetic short story about adultery: "You'll Find It Difficult to Con demn Them as Human Beings.") When Redbook lost $400,000 last year, President Marvin Pierce of McCall Corp. (which also publishes McCall's) decided that it might pay to edit the magazine for a younger audience...
M.I.T. is still the biggest of the open-end trusts. In Boston, where the managing of other people's money has always been the highest calling (short of the pulpit or the presidency of Harvard), M.I.T. does not suffer from the fact that a Cabot, a Lowell and an Adams are on its advisory board-and that Merrill Griswold, its Harvard Law School-trained chairman, was once married to a Lowell...
Cancer & Consumption. The only good thing about a climbing-boy's life was that it was likely to be short. Most of them were sold, at five or six, to a master-sweeper, sometimes by their parents, sometimes by the overseer of an almshouse; many were kidnaped by unscrupulous masters...