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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidents). Publisher: Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Lavish with color plates, fancy printing and paper, the first issue was devoted to picture propaganda for the U.S. Navy-almost as impressive as a visit from the fleet. Later issues will contain less color, more text, will cost U.S. taxpayers less money, but will have impressive picture spreads demonstrating U.S. potency. And 20,000 copies printed in Portuguese will continue to go to Brazilians plus 60,000 copies in Spanish to other Latin Americans...
...text for today is particularly applicable at this time, as it can serve as a double lesson. First, let it be an inspiration to the Class of '45, some of whom come from parts of the country where every college boasts of its campus and not of its yard. Second, let it act as a much-needed reminder to the three upper classes. Their members have of late years shown an alarming tendency to break away, either out of wilfulness or neglect, from the traditional moniker which the Harvard grounds have carried since the city was born as Newtowne three...
Last week in Madrid a full page in the Falangist newspaper Informaciones sagged heavily with the musty weight of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' latest caution to Latin America about Yankee imperialism. But the text of this familiar theme had barely reached Central and South American shores, when Dr. Goebbels had got from Latin America new lumps for himself, for Führer and for Fatherland...
...modern text has so exclusive a claim to the title of Teachers' Friend as had the famed McGuffey Readers. But some 400,000 schoolmarms (two-thirds of all U.S. public grade school teachers) draw regular inspiration from a modern counterpart of McGuffey whose lessons are said to reach 14,000,000 pupils: a magazine called The Instructor. Last week the 50-year-old Instructor got a new boss: Miss Helen Mildred Owen, daughter of the magazine's founder. Energetic, fortyish, long the magazine's managing editor, she took over last week as president of the firm...