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...Managing Editor says that all he knows is what he reads in TIME, he is not being wary or bashful or humorous-he is merely stating a fact. But most people are so accustomed to the idea that the press must resign itself to silence unless it can pin its statements on someone else that they find it hard to believe that our editors are not gold mines of unprinted truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...game Chesterfielded and carnationed, but without a black derby--an added touch saved for the Yale game and sacred to Julian. Chase's light brown fedora saw the Crimson win, though. Murray Murdoch (ex-Ranger puckster who coaches the Blue) had on a natty gray fedora with a gray, pin-striped suit...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing the Buck | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

...Lambethman, "and there's nothing to see now." From the radio account it appeared that the Walk had been a bent little lane of shops with a pub called The Angel, an Eel Pie Saloon, and, in peacetime, a street market where anything could be had from "a pin to an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: People to People | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...stream called the Pin Chaung, Belden was trapped with Imperial troops by a road block and then encirclement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Hike | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...they use exercises for difficulties which they recognize as muscular (cross eyes, walleyes, etc.). Exercise equipment may be simply a pin which a patient watches while it is brought up to his nose, or a complex instrument like the synoptophore, third cousin to a stereoscope, which not only exercises eyes but helps diagnosis as well. An eye-exerciser sponsored by American Optical Co.'s Dr. J. F. Neumueller (see cut) combines mirrors, lenses, lights and stereoscopic images to give eye muscles a strenuous workout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise v. Eyeglasses | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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