Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of evolution, cleaning up the many abuses of the past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union shop or opposition to the right-to-work laws "serves the interests of the unions in the long, long run," calls them "a crutch...
...recently added health resorts, beauty parlors, charm schools, theaters from Broadway to Los Angeles, even boxing arenas and ballparks; for the fiscal year (ending March 31) it expects membership to rise by 425,000 and hit more than 1,000,000, billings to be $140 million, up 54%. American Express, which recently signed 3,753 auto dealers to honor its cards on repair jobs, has attracted 600,000 members. Hoteluminary Conrad Hilton has signed Socony Mobil's 32,000 gas stations, plans to launch a card for most consumer wants, starts with 1,000,000 Hilton-Statler cardholders. Name...
Died. Russell Barclay Kingman, 74, onetime (1951-52) president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association (he cracked down on creeping lace pantyism among female contenders), only American president (1949 and 1954) of the International Lawn Tennis Federation; of a heart ailment; in Orange...
...very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building...
...communion. This idea binds together a sheaf of reflections on the nature, meanings, and ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...