Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maxim for Max. In June 1945 Corre began to edit Samedi Soir. Paris took to it like a dance craze; its circulation was soon 370,000. He quit a year later after a squabble and called on his old boss, Pierre Lazareff. Corre wanted to take over the dull Sunday edition of Lazareff's profitable France-Soir (TIME, June 23). "Take it," said Lazareff, "it's yours." With five hours to make his first deadline, Corre slapped together an edition that tripled France Dimanche's circulation, then 30,000. When Samedi Soir's editors...
Right Thinking for $6. The movement (it soon became that) was started in 1874 at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. by John Vincent, a young New Jersey minister, and a businessman friend from Akron named Lewis Miller. By 1900, what had begun as an open air "Sunday School Teachers' Assembly" for 40 young people (two weeks of clean living and right thinking for $6) had expanded into an association that ran a school of theology, a correspondence-school university and a publishing house. To the "Mother Chautauqua" pavilion by the lake came U.S. Presidents, reformers, topnotch writers, singers, and actors...
...armed prowler, described as "balding" and "about 65" made good his third escape from his latest nocturnal visitation to Kirkland House Sunday morning...
Commenting last night, on Donovan's article, Ulric R. Neisser '50, chairman of the Political Action Committee of the HLU and temporary secretary of the nine-man committee directing Sunday's meeting, said that the value of UMT program is "certainly minimal," in view of the importance of atomic war-fare, and characterized it as a "futile, expensive, and dangerous" measure. Neisser revealed that he will send a reply to Donovan, through "Shannonigans" within the next few days...
...circulated appeal for Sunday's organizational meeting, which was distributed to selected leaders in University extra-curricular affairs, emphasized that by uniting their efforts, various student groups can "de a very important job in rallying student opposition against UMT and exercising political pressure." It proposed the formation of a New England Youth Division as a chapter of the National Council Against Conscription in a move to compete with the National Youth Assembly, regarded by many local collegiate groups as instigated by the Communist Party...