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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How People Rise & Fall | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Holy Cross contest, Seniors and their dates will fill sections 33 and 34, Juniors will occupy 35 and the upper portion of 36, Sophomores will fill out the bottom of 36 and the top of 37, and the smaller number of Freshmen applicants will watch from the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latest H.A.A. Revision Puts Priority on Section Location | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...Democrats aren't exactly complacent over the chances of their national ticket this year, but they have fond and quite reasonable hopes of taking over the Senate. Democratic candidates are favored to displace four Republicans, which would give the elder party a 49 to 47 majority in the next Upper House. But the GOP may be able to keep Senate control by unseating Democrats in turn. In five states where Democrats are wobbly--Tennessee, New Mexico, Montans, Colorado, and Texas--the Republicans are desperately pouring in funds and slick campaign speakers...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Campaign | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...Talk? For the couch treatment, patients must not only be supine but intelligent (with I.Q.s, many believe, of 115-120, about college level). Psychoanalysis works best on neuroses (most often of the upper income brackets); it is no good for most psychoses. Besides the protracted, cumbersome and expensive method of the couch, what specific treatments do psychiatrists use? The one that occupies most psychiatrists' time is face-to-face talks about the patients' here-&-now problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Falk and Rome are desperate. They want it back. It's a full-length female leg, delicately covered with nylon and embellished with a blue lace-and-ribbon garter at the upper extremity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomores Lose as Indians Take Gam for Victory Prize | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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