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...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...
...TIME is all of these-TIME is more than these. And no one can ever understand TIME until he understands the purposes and the thinking which direct our correspondents and researchers, and motivate our writers. As much as any large group of intelligent men can agree on any one credo, I believe they are agreed that...
...English A-1 prize short story is something of a shock. Mature in its technique, Robert Ogden's "Sandy" still seems somewhat out of place, for it adds too little to the usual in horse stories to be truly worthwhile. Wallace Stegner's article, "A Credo for the Unconvinced," is an interesting revaluation of the basis of contemporary criticism which, while it may prove too personal for universal approval, should convince many of the sympathy with which this English A-1 section man will regard their work. The abbreviated version of the Advocate's usual guide to the night life...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
Booth Tarkington, 72, makes his debut in dress-shirt music this week when the Indianapolis Symphony and a contralto soloist give Credo-words by Tarkington...