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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Education of a General | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Though he had been hailed as the Liberator, he found himself deep in debt, abused by his compatriots, branded by his country's Congress as "an enemy of Venezuela." He died feeling that he was a failure. Writes Author Frank: "Bolivar strove to be Moses, Madison and Jefferson to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Hero | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

From China: In almost every major international conference since Versailles, the world's diplomats have known Wellington Koo, now China's calm, clearheaded Ambassador to the U.S. Few statesmen are more at home amid the intricacies of world politics and economics (he was China's Foreign Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report From The World: Cleveland, Jan. 9,10,11. | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Four days later Larry Doyle woke up. He could not remember the accident, but otherwise he was clearheaded. "[The doctor] told me my right arm, my entire right side and both legs were paralyzed because of damage to my brain. Then he pumped enthusiasm into me. He told me I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind over Muscle | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

In reviewing Professor Ralph Barton Perry's Puritanism and Democracy (TIME, Jan. 22), you say: "The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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