Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime" [TIME, Sept. 10] I note that Psychologist Harvey C. Lehman has averaged it all up to conclude that "top performances" come "at a precise figure for the prime of life: 33." An interesting commentary on the psychologist's mania for meaningless statistics would be a brief listing of some outstanding "top performances" in the arts, i.e., actual masterpieces...
...sixth month in office, everybody could see that Harry Truman's way with the press was different from Franklin Roosevelt's. Was it better? Most Washington reporters by now were used to the Truman style of brief, factual announcements. Most of them liked it, even if the news gushed forth without much background information, and never anything like the parables Franklin Roosevelt delighted to tell. A few newsmen, mostly the kind who do "think pieces" and need something to prime the pump, yearned for the artful skirmishes, the nods and becks and significant smiles, of the 45-minute...
...Clark's 140-page brief made one prime point: the $670,000,000 aluminum plants owned by the Defense Plant Corp. cannot compete with Alcoa if they are turned over to private hands. In general, the DPC plants are more expensive to operate as a unit than are Alcoa's, because they are not as well integrated, i.e., fabricating plants are often hundreds of miles from ingot plants. To get them into production fast, many were built to mesh with Alcoa's own plants. The DPC plants can compete, said Tom Clark, only with the help...
Nothing Smelly. At Frank Spina's barbershop Harry Truman got his usual trim, reminded his old barber: "None of that fancy stuff. I don't want anything that smells." He got plain water. Over at the Federal Building he saw more old friends and held a brief press conference. Of the Supreme Court vacancy he told reporters: "The hardest thing in the world is to find a good man when you want one." After lunch he went home to Independence and slept all afternoon...
...chair he squirms, gestures, listens closely (he is slightly deaf), continuously shifts his small, well-shod feet, which usually end up perched on the table. The afternoon clicks by with the same production-line regularity. By 5:30 p.m., he is ready to leave for home with a bulging brief case under his arm. Usually, after dinner with his wife, he works for a few hours. He is in bed by 10 p.m. Two weeks of each month he usually spends in Detroit, hardly stirring out of the grey walls of G.M.'s building there. (He even sleeps...