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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there any significance in having Mr. Dubinsky [TIME, Aug. 29] looking smilingly southward from your cover's clothes compass? Perhaps that region of the country could use some of his admirable talents for doing such a mammoth job in so streamlined and painless a fashion...
...your Aug. 22 issue: "[Elizabeth Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity...
Looking back over the record of our coverage of Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U., I was interested to find that TIME'S first mention of them occurred two decades ago. Those two decades cover all but six years of the span of TIME itself. In its Aug. 19, 1929 issue youthful TIME took note of David Dubinsky for the first time. He was then acting president of I.L.G.W.U. The story gave an account of his efforts to raise a $250,000 bond issue to finance a strike of 45,000 Manhattan dressmakers. From that time on, as Dubinsky...
Secretary Acheson, who is smarting under criticism of his White Paper on China (TIME, Aug. 15), and grows steadily more emotional over the Chinese Nationalist regime, jumped to the conviction that the Republican amendment would earmark aid for the Nationalists, and gave no weight to the larger idea of harassing the Communists...
When the company began to run out of money, Barbour found an angel in American Research & Development Corp., a venture-capital group of hardheaded New England businessmen (TIME, Aug. 19, 1946). With $150,000 of American Research's money, and the stock issue, Tracerlab was put on firm footing...