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Noting that one Mollie Alpiner, the store's buyer of knit underwear, was as shrewd and diligent a worker as he, Charles Netcher married her in 1891. They had four children (none of the three still living has any interest in the store), but business came first. Once Mrs...
Underground Economist. The Théophraste Renaudot Prize went to David Rousset, for his L'Univers Concentrationnaire, a graphic, harrowing description of life in Nazi concentration camps in France. Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the...
He was a poor boy and a poor young man. At 15, he went to work as a printer's devil. After he learned his trade he traveled the countryside as a journeyman printer with no baggage but a shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept...
As Britain's ambassador to Russia, he used to dictate reports in the Embassy backyard under Moscow's boiling summer sun, stripped to the waist. As ambassador to China, during the heaviest Japanese bombings of Chungking, he imperturbably remained in a patched-up bungalow on the blasted north...
This week Hatoyama tried to correct the impression his book had made. "I said," he told reporters, "that Hitler's eye was piercing and that Mussolini was diligent."