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Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Matter of Taste | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Manhattan Folklorist Gershon Legman, author of a historical treatise on comic books, showed the psychiatrists some grisly samples and presented some shuddery statistics. Every year 500,000,000 comic books are printed; the average city child reads ten to a dozen a month. If there is only one scene of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puddles of Blood | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

The suffering of millions of people is beyond comprehension. Wisely, this story focuses on just two individual samples of it-a Czech mother (Metropolitan Soprano Jarmila Novotna*) and her little boy (Ivan Jandl, who was "discovered" in a Prague radio station).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

In Philadelphia, the American Friends Service Committee announced that nearly 800 U.S. college students would participate in 60-odd Quaker-sponsored summer work projects. Samples: rebuilding a fire-razed Maine community; the development of recreation programs in Detroit, Chicago and Rowland, Me.; reconstruction of homes and community buildings in Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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