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...Austin, a tireless worker, has unflagging enthusiasm for U.N. Says he: "Practice, difficult at first, will develop into custom, custom into faith. . . ." Though an idealist (and a sentimentalist at times), Austin has a hard Yankee core, and likes to win. But, says he: "The will to win should generate the will to do justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Ambassador to the World | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Replied Marcus Goodrich: "If that son of a gun comes up here, I'll pull an old Latin custom on him-bolt the windows and lock in the women. That's what he did to me in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: El Indio | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Looking Down. "By academism we mean: to evaluate things by ingrained custom. . . . But life is different, unbridled, without respect. . . . The U.N., spontaneous creation in the fading hour of a society outmoded by the elan of a new life, must take heed! Bad shepherds are not lacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Pyramidal Peace | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Venus. Hers is an interesting face, not a vacant one. . . . Her hair looks as if she could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lobster-Supper Charlies | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...held a single seat in the cheering section and who have ended up in the end zone, the statement said, and attributed this difficulty to the fact that sections 33, 34, and 35, and often part of 36 are reserved for the cheering section, which by custom, excludes women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Probers See H.A.A. Ticket System AS "Failing in Details" | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

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