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East Germany, who has had its own Elite Guard of heavy-weaponed "People's Police" ever since an Adenauer army was a gleam in Dean Acheson's eye, has been much more subtle. The Volkspolizei wear Russian-style uniforms to give an illusion at least that the Fascist state has passed out of existence. Of course it's a question as to how many people they fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELMETS AND HATRED | 10/7/1954 | See Source »

...President spent as much time playing golf as Truman spent playing poker, the President could beat Ben Hogan." Stay out of debates, but if they are unavoidable, there are some handy techniques. "If he asks you where you stand on Dulles, ask him where he stands on Acheson. If he asks you how you stand on the McCarthy issue, make him say where he stands on Mitchell and Bobby Jones, on Roosevelt and Condon. I personally can't see much to choose between the bellows of McCarthy and the bleats of Mr. Mitchell. He is using the McCarthy technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Caucauasu & the Congress | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...yourself cult are such bigwigs as U.S. Steel Vice President David Austin, who has a two-room, $5,000 woodworking workshop packed into his Pittsburgh apartment; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

General Assembly-the first of six consecutive State Department jobs (three missions to the U.N., three as Dean Acheson's special assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...effecting an orderly transition.'' Young, who knew the result three days earlier (when it was also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors, who had been asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Young Takes Over | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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