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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S editorial operation is geared to handle the vagaries of the news, which has no respect for editorial deadlines, and such high-speed devices as the radio, telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
...into disciplined channels, had helped to roil his people into turbulence. What he had called the "dumb, toiling, semi-starving millions," who revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
Tomorrow, July 12 and 19, from 10 to 1 o'clock, the students who complained to the Student Council, as well as any others who hope to use the building on Saturdays during the summer, will have a chance to demonstrate that the closing is not warranted by any lack of student interest...
...protest that had arisen since this policy was put into effect, however, has been great enough to move the Council to petition the H.A.A. In reply, Getchell agreed to test by means of three experimental days the probably use of the building during the remaining summer Saturdays...
...describe the golden cinema business of the war years, Hollywood had used a special phrase-"boffo terrif." By last week Hollywood knew that it was time to use another phrase; things had changed. Movie attendance ("boffo") was down 25%-45% in extreme cases. In the nation's theaters, business had slipped until it was a mere "boffo sensational...