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...this combination, Trippe adds meticulous planning-and an allout attack. Said one bureaucrat: "When you close the door to Pan Am, it comes in the window. And when you close the window, there they are, coming right through the wall." Trippe usually gets what he wants by getting there first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...above). There was a dilemma, he added, between the great need for as full and as quick public information as possible, and the equally great need for a certain amount of privacy and calm. He remembered once talking about this in a lecture under the heading of "The Bureaucrat's Dilemma, or Why Diplomats Become Dipsomaniacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...leading humorous weekly Krokodil had been called on the Kremlin carpet for "not fulfilling its purpose." In Poland, a Satirists' Congress was told sternly that jokes involving sex and mothers-in-law were no longer considered funny, though humor could still be drawn from the petty bourgeoisie, the bureaucrat and the speculator. Elsewhere, however, people swapped yarns just as they had before. Here & there TIME'S correspondents paused to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...guest list at Oppie's hotel this year will also include Historian Arnold Toynbee, Poet T. S. Eliot, Legal Philosopher Max Radin-and a literary critic, a bureaucrat and an airlines executive. There was no telling who might turn up next: maybe a psychologist, a Prime Minister, a composer or a painter. Oppenheimer was just working up courage: "If a man is a full professor at Harvard, he may be a fool, but he's a respectable fool. In the world of action, criteria for acceptability are more confused...

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

...Good Spot." How did the spy ring operate? Elizabeth Bentley detailed her furtive meetings with a young bureaucrat named William W. Remington. In 1942, she said, Remington was "in a good spot" with the War Production Board, where "he was dealing with aircraft production figures." (Until six weeks ago, when he was suspended, Remington was chairman of a Department of Commerce committee which collated secret information from many Government offices, including the Atomic Energy Commission. His committee's job: to determine what materials and goods should and should not be exported to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Network | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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