Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collegiate editors have been stealing such gags-and even worse ones-from each other since the 1870s, when the Lampoon and Yale Record were born. These college magazines reached a heyheyday in the hip-flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed...
Cave-Dwellers' Paper. The Star caters to the "cave-dwellers"-the permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...
...Most hospitals are short of doctors, nurses and attendants (whose pay is often less than $1,000 a year). The hospitals themselves are so medieval, in facilities and treatment, that only 60 of 900 psychiatrists discharged from the armed forces were willing to work in them...
Nevertheless, with the biggest Christmas shopping spree in history apparently under way, Macy's President Jack I. Straus soberly told stockholders: "We are conscious of the inherent dangers [in future commitments] and are taking appropriate steps to follow a conservative course." In short, business was so good it might easily become...
Passengers who had waited up to three weeks for seats on both Braniff and C.M.A., except during the short off-season slack, would question this statement. Tom Braniff questioned it immediately. Said he: "The order of the minister ... is merely one of a long series of actions unfriendly to Aerovias Braniff, but showing partiality to Pan American Airways and its Mexican subsidiary...