Word: written
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...letter was written by Wallach on behalf of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, a group of students in several eastern colleges "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the great French essayist...
...basic fault of "Alive and Kicking" is, not surprisingly, its material. In spite of the assistance of Milton Berle, Henry Morgan, and four other contributors to the sketches, there are no more than three or four genuinely funny moments all evening. The songs, written by a total of ten people, can be most charitably described as innocuous. Costumes and scenery are similarly undistinguished. Surely such weak efforts do not deserve a cast of 40 and a production costing thousands of dollars...