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Another time, Jones had touse American slang to get out of a tough spot. He and two staffers were covering an Arab nationalist uprising in Tunisia in 1952, when his car was stopped by a large band of Arabs. "After many minutes of trying to convince them that we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

In the novel Dostoyevsky's character is wise and good, but his frequent epileptic fits seem paradoxical to his moral eloquence. In the film, the Idiot is more a character of insight and candor. His fits have a mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Idiot | 5/19/1954 | See Source »

Mao Tse-tung, 61. chairman of the Politburo, the Central Committee, the Government and Military Council-in short, the dictator. The son of a well-to-do peasant, he attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. tirelessly organized China's peasants while others concentrated mistakenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RED CHINA'S BIG FOUR | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Joseph Nye Welch, 63, the Army's special counsel for the investigation, speaks with a honeyed fluency and a meaningful grin that hints of legal cunning. Iowa-born Welch, a Boston lawyer, when in his Boston office, does most of his work standing at a high, old-fashioned clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCCARTHY V. THE ARMY: The Men and the Issues | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Cohn, a chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.), hazel-eyed dynamo type with deceptively sleepy eyelids, carefully slicked hair, is a man of extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Self-Inflated Target | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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