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Ninety miles away in Miami, Cuban emigres wish for Fidel's imminent collapse, but the island's university students who volunteer to take a two- week "vacation" in the fields don't see trouble brewing in Paradise. Marlen Fuentes, 21, her pants caked with red mud after a nine-hour day, is typical of the young Cubans who come. "We need a change," she says, "but from inside our system. We need to talk about our mistakes and find solutions inside socialism." These aren't assembly-line thinkers; they genuinely care about the gains of the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Dancing the Socialist Line | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...actual judging was a battle between the forces of evil--represented by the Poonies and myself, who were having mild hysterics--and the force of good--represented by the Miss America man, Marlen L. Slaven, an old hand at this sort of thing and a stickler for orderly procedure. Later Mr. Slaven was able to provide expert advice to the promoter...

Author: By Michael S. Lettman, | Title: The Confessions of A Beauty Contest Judge | 5/24/1961 | See Source »

...When friends upbraid him for breaking confidences, Walter Winchell grovels, "I know-I'm just a son of a bitch." But Winchell lets no one cry "Amen" to this judgment. The late Editor Marlen Pew of the tradesheet Editor and Publisher also criticized Winchell as a bad influence on the U. S. press, was thereafter mentioned by Winchell as "Marlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Columny | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Died. Marlen Edwin Pew, 58, lifelong newshawk who in 1912 helped organize the United Press, onetime (1919-22) manager of Hearst's International News Service from which he resigned "on principle," from 1924 until his retirement last June (TIME, June 15) editor and vice president of Editor & Publisher; after a throat operation; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Interviewing himself in "Shop Talk At Thirty," Marlen Pew gave his own ideas on what a newspaper should be: "Publish more news, more expertly written. . . . Make every word count, have some decent respect for the time of the reader, and publish more and better news pictures and cartoons. . . . Tell a common story and quit-do not repeat the facts three times, in introduction, description and interview. ... Be natural, direct, wholesome, alert. Work for the readers, busy people who are depending on you to tell them 'what's doing.' See the beauty in life as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pew Out | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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