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...only some of our brash young entertainers would take a leaf out of his book! He is the most enchanting, modest, literate, charming, patient, lovable gentleman in show business today, and he wasn't wearing his toupee, either...
Mark Clark is a proud and ambitious man; almost all good generals are. His enemies and critics say also that he is impulsive and overfond of publicity. In part these opinions are a recollection of the brash young general, enamored with cloak & dagger stuff, that Clark was ten years ago but is no longer; in part these opinions reflect the nervousness of Europeans, especially the British, when the U.S. puts any forceful man in the Far East. It so happens that the U.S. needs an aggressive, clearheaded and self-confident man in Tokyo-and Mark Clark is just that...
...Schumacher arrived in Berlin in 1930 as a newly elected Reichstag Deputy from Württemberg. Almost immediately Schumacher made his mark. "He was most daring, most reckless, most lacking in respect," recalls the man who was then Reichstag president, "the same as today." His speeches were few but brash, sarcastic and courageous. One day in May 1932, after Goebbels had attacked the German Socialists on the Reichstag floor, Deputy Schumacher rose in fury to reply. "The whole National Socialist movement," he cried, "is only a lasting appeal to the inner swine-dog in man . . . For the first time...
...color pages in TIME'S Art section during the past year have ranged all the way from the work of old masters to that of the most brash of contemporary non-objectivists, reporting both the news about established artists and the new work of contemporary painters, conservative as well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul...
Last week Loes was given his third start, against Philadelphia. He won again, 5-0, allowing but five hits. It was his fifth straight victory, over five different teams. In 43⅓ innings, brash Billy Loes has allowed only three earned runs, for a remarkable earned-run average of .063. Admittedly a jittery youngster, Loes thinks singlemindedness is the key to his effectiveness: "The only time I'm not nervous is when I'm pitching. When I'm out there I only think about one thing, the pitch I'm going to throw this...