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...Cherub-faced Oscar Ewing, chief pitchman for Harry Truman's national health insurance plan (see MEDICINE), could not contain his enthusiasm over Britain's socialized medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE: Wigs, Spectacles & All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...week for the young. The school year was over almost everywhere; armies of cherub-like little fiends immediately began skinning knees, wading through poison ivy and falling out of trees. The 1949 crop of high school and college graduates walked out into a world that was getting colder for job-hunters all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Other 99.4% | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Germany, been acclaimed for his music in Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy. He arrived at New York City's International Airport, smiling and confident. Asked his U.S. managers: "Walter, is everything all set? Are you free to go wherever you want?" Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.), cherub-faced Pianist Gieseking beamed: "Everything is set, so far as I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conflict | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...make the cars, the five car-division vice presidents, who are, in effect, big manufacturers on their own. They are: Cadillac's Jack Gordon, 48, crack engine man, who worked ten years on the new Cadillac engine; Chevrolet's W. F. Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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