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After World War I, Kohler taught at Northwestern University, left a lucrative private accounting practice to set up the books for the Tennessee Valley Authority. During World War II, he moved on to the War Production Board, moved again to the Petroleum Administration. He earned a reputation as a man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Super Detective | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Last week the new Howdy, looking more like Pinocchio and less like Mortimer Snerd, was joined to the old voice. "I think your new face is beautiful," wrote one little admirer. But youngsters who are suffering through television's growing pains will have their loyalties severely strained this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Vanishing Puppet | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Like most composers, Debussy was no ardent admirer of conductors. He thus saluted one of the day's most famed, Felix Weingartner: "He . . . conducted [Beethoven's] Pastoral Symphony with the care of a conscientious gardener. He tidied it so neatly as to produce the illusion of a meticulously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dilettante Hater | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Menzhinsky's pupil and successor was Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda, a dull-faced man with a Chaplin mustache under whose regime developed the idea of putting prisoners to work. Even children arrested for "stealing Socialist property" were put into labor camps. The writer Maxim Gorky, a great admirer of Yagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Hunter | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Sidewalk Superintendent. Avon was started in 1927 by the late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Little Gentlemen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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