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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picture-packed Nation's Heritage was the heaviest (7 lbs.) and most expensive ($30 a copy) magazine on the market. It was also one of the least popular; only 3,000 copies of the bimonthly current (and sixth) issue were printed. Last week 30-year-old Publisher Malcolm Forbes, son of Forbes magazine's B. C. Forbes, announced that Heritage had died, leaving no heirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Intestate | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity or loneliness to McKeown and Larder's service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Peering through grillwork gates, over garden walls and from doors, windows and moving dollies, three television cameras probed last week into the anguished doings at the great house at Thornfield in Studio One's dramatization of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Not all of Studio One's hour-long shows are as moving and well-integrated as was Jane Eyre; like all TV dramas the quality wavers up & down from week to week. But what makes Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) outstanding in television is its invariable high technical polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...stint with RKO in Hollywood), "Tony" Miner has pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering often moves CBS engineers to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Washington's Carnegie Institution, which does "significant research toward philosophical goals," has been looking at the earth philosophically for several years. Last week its annual yearbook reported progress on some significant problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electric Earth | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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