Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heraldry is a subject that has fascinated Myles Standish Weston of TIME'S Promotion Department since he was eleven years old. At that time, to settle an argument about the German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That...
During World War II Weston had a chance to study his favorite subject on its home grounds-as a private, later a 2nd lieutenant, in the U.S. Army in Europe. He talked to heraldic scholars and added some valuable source books to his collection. He also found out that his hobby is a fighting subject-after a clash with a Belgian soldier on a blacked-out train over what arms should be assigned to the present wife of Belgium's King Leopold...
...office as clerks, St. Laurent paid them $2.25 a week with the explanation : "When you have no money to spend, you have more time for your books." Père St. Laurent also laid down the rules for his daughters' courtships. Said daughter Madeleine: "Father's word on any subject was final...
Only about one out of ten Americans has ever gone to college, but almost all of them have ideas on the subject. Last week FORTUNE gave its summary of their views. With Pollster Elmo Roper, and an advisory board of educators, it had just completed a nationwide survey probing into everything from costs to Communism and coeducation...
...week starting Friday, Sept. 9. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...