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...that came later -brought TIME Correspondent Frank McNaughton some surprising news. To millions of televiewers in 26 U.S. cities he had become something of a star. To TIME editors he was a man doing before cameras just what he had been doing with a typewriter for 24 years: a bang-up reporting...
...Bang-Up Job. Some of these efforts have good results. Last year the Shah picked as Premier his close friend, Ali Razmara, who had done a bang-up job as army chief of staff. The Majlis resents Razmara, as it resents any kind of effective government. "I have to spend 75% of my time fighting off intrigues," the new Premier said. In spite of the Majlis and the Princess Ashraf, Premier Razmara began getting things done...
...wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million development program for Iran (TIME...
Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that some of the Met's old productions needed tuning...
Actually few of the displays merited a second look, but the city's Municipal Art Commission had done a bang-up, Hollywood-style job of putting them before the public and the public apparently enjoyed seeing art in the sunlight. "I don't like galleries," said one elderly park-goer, "they remind me of funerals." His wife agreed: "Outside you don't mind looking at pictures, and even statues, so long as they're not vulgar...