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...desperate for enough material to fill its broadcast hours, has finally discovered an almost inexhaustible source. The verbal reservoir: 69-year-old Edgar A. Guest, "poet of the plain people," who has been dashing off at least one verse a day for almost 50 years, mainly for his daily stint in the Detroit Free Press. In 1930, when he stopped counting them, Guest had already mass-produced more than 10,000 cheerful rhymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Heap O' Rhymin' | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Arms are necessary to defend the free world, but arms alone are not enough. Hunger and hopelessness cannot be beaten with bullets and bombs; knowledge and skill, applied with understanding and compassion, are weapons we must use without stint if we are to win through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

With television and radio commitments Russell's income is already well up in five figures, and there is a three-month picture-making stint in Hollywood coming up "I'll never be conceited," he says. "I've just got something to sell and my job is to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horn-Rimmed Harvey | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...second-rate public school focuses his aim; he picks the career of law because it is often so well paid. Social-climbing nimbly, he marries money, does a stint with the R.A.F. largely because some day "it might be very useful" to have a war record. After the war he is ready for his next big push: a seat in Parliament. Just shy of his goal, his wife discovers him renewing a wartime love affair. Hopelessly attached to her husband, Nancy Tarrant commits suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There I Go | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Fort Leavenworth in the early '30s was a well-run penitentiary, even if the prisoners seemed to run most of it themselves. Or, certainly, so Psychologist Donald Wilson remembers it from his three-year stint there as an investigator for the U.S. Public Health Service. In those days, Fort Leavenworth was the Government's No. 1 pokey for narcotics-law violators,* and Wilson's job was to study the relationship between drug addiction and crime in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Stuff | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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