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Tad is a bundle of perpetual uncertainty and self-doubt, constantly feeling inferior due to his baby-face and five-foot-one stature yet blessed with keen insight and a genuine zest for life, a man who "loved life's details, relished even its absurdities, delighted in the oddity of...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: We Wish You a Dysfunctional Christmas | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

But there is, to me, an even more fascinating evolution. Starting with Ford's assembly line, the 20th century was the first in human history that was shaped by mass manufacturing. Instead of the tailored and crafted products of previous centuries, we were blessed (and sometimes cursed) with products that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Why Picking These Titans Was Fun | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Tom Deacon, director of catalogue exploitation for Philips Music Group in Amsterdam, is one of those people blessed with the sort of memory for facts usually on display when 14-year-olds argue football trivia with their elders. Ask Deacon about a recording of a composition by a particular pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piano Bravissimo | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Nobody was more of an inspiration to Ford than the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. At the turn of the century Edison had blessed Ford's pursuit of an efficient, gas-powered car during a chance meeting at Detroit's Edison Illuminating Co., where Ford was chief engineer. (Ford had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Force: Henry Ford | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Robert McCormick (1880-1955), owner of the Chicago Tribune, cultivated presidential enemies the way other men do orchids, winning Franklin Roosevelt's special hatred for publishing, on the eve of World War II, secret War Department plans that put the lie to F.D.R.'s professed neutrality. McCormick traveled the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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