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...Manhattan Promoter Edward W. Miller, the Supermarket Institute, representing some 5.000 U.S. stores, and McCall's, which provided $750,000, its printing plant and know-how. Miller raised another $750,000 from such private investors as Nelson Rockefeller and Clendenin Ryan (onetime owner of the American Mercury). Not till he had supermarket outlets for at least a million copies did Publisher Miller set his editorial staff to work. Said he: "Some people think there's a lot of quick money in this business. But you've got to have a good book, you have to spend money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Supermagazmes | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...love Or alcohol or gold, But do as you are told. I could (which you cannot) Find reasons fast enough To face the sky and roar In anger and despair At what is going on, Demanding that it name Whoever is to blame: The sky would only wait Till all my breath was gone And then reiterate

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Cleverness to Wisdom | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...hated school, liked the poetic parts of the Bible, but had no interest in religion or "that stupid automaton, the preacher." Work he always hated ("Never do anything today that you can put off till tomorrow"), but the golden touch never deserted him. When he left the farm to go to Detroit at 18, it was to learn the drugstore business. He quit at the.end of the first week when he learned his apprentice wage: 50? a week. Within a year he was circulation manager of the Detroit News and, thanks to his commissions, was making more than the owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genus: Successful Crank | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Yale will take on the Smith debating team at 1:45 p.m. Saturday on the subject, "Resolved: That the romantic attitude toward love is an outmoded conception." This will be held in the Library browsing room. From 3 p.m. till 5 p.m. the Quad will be the scene of a Garden Party with the Chamber singers. The Prom proper begins at 3:30 p.m. in Scott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Prom Hoopla Features Dancing, Debating, Parties | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...lucky, she can persuade two friends to sit up for her, and she'll take a "special late" till midnight. As these are limited, if you get one, consider yourself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smithites Seek Males, Fine Food on Weekend | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

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