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In his 37th year in Paraguay's remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caudillo from Texas | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

At any rate, anyone who is guilty of such specific heinousness as being "a generally shifty guy," "wearing a letter which he had not earned" (a Cardinal Sin!)," "'bossing' meetings" (in Education 4, no less), and who has had "innumerable instances of petty dishonesty attributed to him," certainly is deserving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Story | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

When Oppenheimer was not bossing the laboratory at Los Alamos, he was dealing with military and civilian brass in Washington, and growing in personal assurance at each new contact. He acquired a new trademark. Worried about security, General Groves told Oppie that his broad-brimmed Stetson was too much hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

The Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Everybody's War | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

By giving Lincoln-Mercury room to grow, he hoped to give more competition to General Motors and Chrysler (whose manufacturing units are all autonomous) in their medium and high price lines. Young Henry also had a man in mind for the job of bossing Lincoln-Mercury. Last week his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Brother's Turn | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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