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...works shorter hours, earns more and strikes more. He gets longer vacations, travels less, spends less on food, clothing and tobacco, more on housing and cars-and, if he lives in London, he sees nearly twice as much winter sunshine as he did 20 years ago. Such is the Briton of today, according to a 220-page compendium of statistics published this month by the British government under the dry title Social Trends...
...Shantung province follow, along with some overdone conjecture about the psychological effect on Luce of the Boxer Rebellion, which forced his family to flee China temporarily when the boy was two. Then come a series of stories of Luce's rivalry at Hotchkiss and Yale with Briton Hadden, the eventual co-founder of TIME. It was Hadden who first laid on the early TIMEstyle back-to-front sentence structure and extravagant use of Homeric epithet. He also provided biographers with an indispensable, all-purpose anecdote, shouting at the preoccupied and serious young Luce in New Haven: "Look out, Harry...
TIME was the brainchild of Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, both under 25, burning with curiosity, enthusiasm and energy. TIME was an invention, something completely new in journalism, and its success underwrote in later years the development of equally innovative magazines: FORTUNE, LIFE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. This month Time Inc. is introducing still another magazine, MONEY. Its publication affirms our belief that the public's need and appetite for news and information has not diminished...
That the rotund Briton's career should attract such widespread interest reveals our own starvation these days for good clean harmless thrills. (Murder is made actually disgusting in Frenzy in only one shot, that of a strangled rape victim, expired, with eyes bulging and her tongue hanging out). Ignore all those metaphysically-minded Frenchmen who treat even the man's stinkers with respect, and forget the cultists who enshrine his purely technical skills and elevate them to levels of high art. Hitchcock is a popular craftsman, and what matters to him are the tricks which make audiences respond with pleasure...
...publications, most Russian citizens are aware that their standard of living lags far behind the West's. According to recent estimates, the average monthly take-home pay of a Soviet industrial worker is $127 v. $529 for his American counterpart, $307 for a West German, $253 for a Briton. Admittedly, the Russian worker has free social services unavailable to Americans, but the disparity still exists. Food costs are high. One Western calculation places the price of a food basket filled with 28 standard items at $56 in Moscow compared with $33 in New York, $48 in Munich...