Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he is not a TIME subscriber, Uncle Charlie follows a pattern of reading common to many TIME families. He awaits his turn. The family subscriber is a niece, Mrs. Earl Smith, who lives nearby. She began reading TIME at the local library, liked it, and became a subscriber. A tall, handsome, grey-haired woman, whose husband is deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith told Wylie that she turns to Science and Medicine first -partly because her son, who is away at school, is particularly interested in those subjects. Then she reads National Affairs, and so on through each issue...
...Idealist. Mao wanted knowledge. He read advertisements of newly opened schools. In turn he enrolled in a police school, a soapmaking school, a law school, a commercial school, an economics school. He finally wound up in the Hunan Normal School where he hoped to be trained as a teacher. He read translations of Adam Smith, Darwin, Rousseau, Spencer. Says Mao: "I was then an idealist...
...facile workman, he is cheerfully accommodating when he has to turn out a new number overnight because an old one has been dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
...made him seem a more serious man than he once was. He is already at work on a score for a new show that Subber & Ayers plan for next fall; this week he leaves for Hollywood to help cast a second company of Kiss Me, Kate, which may turn out to be the biggest smash of his career...
Party Line. Worker writers turn in their copy to half a dozen editors, known to the rest of the staff as "commissars." The city editors, Eric Bert and Joe Clark, are little more than routing clerks. The commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story...