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When the commercials come along, says Social Research, the m.m. housewife assumes an attitude of watchful waiting: "She doesn't want to miss anything that is really good; at the same time, she expects to be largely bored." What the m.m. woman wants is 1) sincerity, 2) originality, 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Middle Majority | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

A year ago Chicago's Henry R. Crown, who runs the biggest U.S. building-supply firm and finds time to promote big deals on the side, got interested in buying the Empire State Building. Reluctantly, he decided it was "too rich for my blood." But he kept a watchful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Boss of the Empire | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was born (in 1902) in his grandfather's house at Nahant, and grew up under his grandfather's watchful eye. His father, George Lodge, an unhappy man who bitterly lamented "my crying inability to adapt myself to my time and to become a moneymaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Harnessing a Wave | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Last week three North Koreans brought Kim back to Panmunjom in a jeep and handed him over-although, they said, the eleven-year-old boy was a spy. Except for a runny nose, he was evidently none the worse for his experience. Under the watchful eyes of the North Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: A Spy, They Said | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

As it is a great honor to be among the group that steals the bell, competition is hard between various bunches of freshmen to see who can carry off the prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

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