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...eyes (one green and one brown) glaring, Stander roared that the real subversives in entertainment are "a group of fanatics [who] would deprive artists of life, liberty and property and due process of law." When Chairman Harold Velde finally interrupted the tirade, Stander said he was shocked that the com mittee didn't want to hear about that kind of subversion. With obvious refer ence to Bandsman Shaw, he rumbled: "I'm not a dupe, dope, mope, moe or schmoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Name Is Familiar | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...short and middle-distance operation . . . It is very expensive to operate ... [and] is not now suited for very long-range operation due to high fuel consumption and limited weight-carrying capacity." U.S. overseas carriers, who must com pete with state-subsidized airlines, may be forced to buy jets for competitive reasons of prestige, said Smith. But the domestic industry will not be likely to adopt a plane that cannot earn its keep. Actually, he said, the next major step in U.S. transport will be to turboprop planes, which use the jet blast to turn propellers. Since the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: What's Wrong with Jets? | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...press, not so much because of Scientist Powell, but because of what it revealed about the startling laxity of security in the oft-burned Foreign Office. A specialist in cos mic radiation, Powell has a record of affiliation with Communist-line causes. As vice president of the British Peace Com mittee, a Communist propaganda front, he so distinguished himself in its activities that he was nominated to the bureau of the Communist-manipulated World Peace Council (he declined). He twice had visited Atomic Spy Dr. Alan Nunn May in prison, but only, he said, to discuss "scientific matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Insecure Security | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...more than six weeks ago, Re publicans and Democrats were arguing bitterly over the question whether Dwight Eisenhower had enough experience to be President, and whether he was decisive enough. By last week, it seemed hard to believe that the argument had ever really taken place. Eisenhower had taken com mand as quickly and firmly as any Presi dent-elect in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: In Business | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Product names are a part of our language-we always say Kleenex or Coke instead of cleansing tissue or soft drink. Getting publicity for a brand name is no more different or immoral than getting it for a singer or hoofer." As for sending gifts to cooperating writers and com-ics, Mayo says that's nothing but sheer friendliness: "Why, at Christmastime, everybody in the U.S. exchanges gifts-they're all Schlockmeisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Open Hands | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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