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...labor (TIME, March 27, 1944), Author Johnston nonetheless believes that U.S. capitalism is the world's best economic system and is enormously proud of being a successful U.S. businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love...
Army Man. Colonel Perón. now tall, handsome and 48, was brought up on his father's ranch in bleak southern Argentina. His boyhood was like that of a healthy, western Yankee. He played and fought with the local boys, rode wild horses, hunted wild turkeys. He entered the Army's Military Academy, became a sublieutenant at 18, a full lieutenant...
...company has been a young character right out of Horatio Alger: a small, blond, Leslie-Howardish man named Charles Luckman. "Chuck" Luckman, now 34, began working as a Kansas City newsboy when he was nine, worked his way through high school and the University of Illinois toward his boyhood dream of becoming an architect. When he graduated in 1931, he had not only an architect's license but also a marriage license. To pay for the consequences of the latter, he took a draftsman's job at Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. He went into selling because a Colgate executive...
...also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about a third of the year with him in his Mayflower Hotel apartment, the rest in Spokane where their daughters Harriet, 17, and Elizabeth, 13, are in high school. Johnston tries to get home one week in every eight...
...comparative novice, Leonard Warren has already sung a great deal, has mastered at least a dozen important roles. His private life is as notably unoperatic as his Bronx boyhood. A quiet, imperturbably good-natured man, he lives with his attractive blond wife (whom he met on his trip to Italy) in a four-room apartment on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. He has two avocations: miniature railroad trains and tropical fish...