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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...TIME last week in a new guise. In our May 1, 1939 issue it was introduced as a new, occasional department, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that readers would understand it better if we reviewed the events that led up to it. Except for one later installment, it was discontinued after the war began. This time its use will be to tell about the places, the people, the weapons, etc. that form the background of this...
...criminal." Majority Leader Lucas called on President Truman to ask the press to impose self-censorship at once, or face a Government censorship. In Lucas' home state, the Chicago Sun-Times made a Page One pledge to swear off news of troop departures, names of vessels, and destinations, except in official announcements...
Modern man's analytical mind, says Hubbard, is a perfect computing machine, incapable of error except when it is supplied with wrong data. An example, typical of Hubbard's cases: a woman is struck by a man, and while she is unconscious he kicks and reviles her. A chair is overturned and a faucet has been left running. She does not "remember" these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram...
...present we are flying copies of TIME to our armed forces in Korea via transport planes of the Far Eastern Air Force. The edition they are getting is the Pacific, one of our four International editions, which is identical with TIME'S U.S. edition except that its advertising is directed to the Pacific market...
Americans are having difficulty saying what U.S. troops are fighting over. Does Seoul, for example, rhyme with fool, soul, or Creole? "Soul" is closest: the eo is pronounced like the eo in George. All consonants in Korean place names are pronounced as in English except...