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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, Dr. Peckham reported on follow-up studies made during two summers with lifeguards at Atlantic City. What he found convinced him that overexposure of the eyes to bright sunlight creates an alarming problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Darker the Better | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Nation last week found itself with an issue dear to its professionally liberal heart: freedom of opinion. And, as usual, it made the most of it. In its own pages, the Nation, in effect, charged that the Saturday Review of Literature was suppressing free opinion. The suppression: the S.R.L.'s refusal to print a letter, signed by 84 poets, critics and others, criticizing two articles the S.R.L. had printed last June about Poet Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize (TIME, Aug. 29). The Nation itself printed the letter last week, alongside an article accusing the S.R.L. of everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whose Blue Pencil? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...hand that leveled an accusing finger at the S.R.L. looked as if it held a fat blue pencil of its own. Last October, the Nation had commissioned Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell to write an article on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harold C. Field, executive editor of the Nation, told Rodell he was delighted with it. But later he said that he and Freda Kirchwey, Nation editor & publisher, wanted a few changes made, notably in Rodell's criticisms of Justice Frankfurter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whose Blue Pencil? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Rodell took his article to the New Republic. Last week, without a quibble, the New Republic published it as written, politely said not a word about its fellow liberal's refusal to run the piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whose Blue Pencil? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...most Far Eastern readers, it will be their first look at a comic book; for many, it will be their first look at a book. By printing the books on heavy paper instead of newsprint, the U.S. expects them to last until upwards of 50 people have thumbed through each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: East Meets West | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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