Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International editions, is bringing us a multitude of interesting visitors. Last month 30 members of the Brazilian press turned up at the TIME & LIFE Building for a look behind the scenes and conversations with members of our editorial staff. A fortnight ago Chilean Economy and Commerce Minister Alberto Baltra came to town and was entertained at dinner by TIME Senior Editor Francis Brown. These visits are a most agreeable and advantageous way of helping keep us here at the home office in touch with our readers'outside...
...Roman Catholicism, Gill was commissioned to do the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral. Gill carved them in "what might be called an archaic manner; but I wasn't doing it on purpose, but only because I couldn't carve in any other way." Next came a commission to carve Prospero and Ariel for London's Broadcasting House. Gill transformed them into God the Father and God the Son. Finally he was asked to do a 55-ft. frieze for the League of Nations council hall at Geneva. Gill suggested "The Turning Out of the Money...
Razzle-Dazzle Start. New York's brand-new WFDR is expected to be a model of union entertainment and salesmanship. Last week's 2½hour inaugural broadcast from the stage of Carnegie Hall saw WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India's Pandit Nehru and Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented...
School. He went to work for the J.D. & A.B. Spreckels sales department at $150 a month, was western sales manager in 1942, when he joined the Navy. He came out a lieutenant commander. Now, as head of the Spreckels Companies, he says: "I want a happy ship and an efficient ship...
...Ages. Frost's first two books, A Boy's Witt and North of Boston, came out in England first; published soon after in the U.S., they had made him famous before his return in 1915. They were masterly first books; the poet's own obscurity had delayed them until he was almost 40, his early experience digested, his resolutions tempered, his vanity under control, his craft long practiced and well in hand. He had wrought and sweated to make himself intelligible, and had done it well enough by that time to know that the results would last...