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...Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Loud Repore | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...prevent the Council from discussing the issue. When newsmen asked Vishinsky what he would do, he grinned and said: "Let us not worry. Everything will be clear in its own time." During one of Vishinsky's tirades, the radiophone translation system broke down. While Vishinsky sputtered in Russian, shrill sounds filled the receivers. Delegates frantically waved their arms. In the face of a laughing audience, Vishinsky finally demanded that his statement be postponed "until in this room, science and technique take the place they deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Suverenitet! Suverenitet! | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Columbia wasn't the only thing that went down the drain Saturday. The old, all-male cheering section also came to grief in a swirl of skirts and shrill cries of glee from thousands of female throats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Male Cheering Bloc Succumbs | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

...also decides, after a quick look around Paris, that "if I lived in France, I don't quite see how I could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent Abroad | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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