Word: timed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herewith some incidental intelligence about TIME from our mail of the last few weeks...
James K. Dobbs, millionaire Memphis auto dealer and airport restaurateur, has reported a strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture, 'I'm sitting beside...
...ever knew, from nine railroads (about his plan to supply meals to dining cars), and from hundreds of people who want to work for him or sell him something. Says he: "I can still hardly go anywhere but somebody doesn't say, 'I saw your picture in TIME.' I never knew so many people read TIME...
...reader in Norfolk, Va. asked if we could put him in touch with a subscriber in a country which grows teakwood. He wanted his favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...
Burke's Peerage Ltd., of London, has written to ask for a copy of The TIME Audience in Heraldry (TIME, Sept. 19), which uses the ancient science of heraldry to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. Burke's managing editor, L. G. Pine, passes along the information that heraldry is thriving and that hundreds of grants of arms are being made yearly by the proper heraldic bodies in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Sweden, the U.S., and many other countries...