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Montreal Bureau Chief Jon Anderson called the number, found it belonged to a mutual-funds salesman who had found TIME'S cover story that week on the mutual funds (and Dwight Robinson of the Massachusetts Investors Trust) the quickest and best explanation of what mutual funds are about. At the Montreal Men's Press Club, Anderson was told that the going price went as high as $15 for this particular issue. Playing a hunch, Anderson checked the TIME file collected in his own office. Sure enough, June 1, 1959 was missing...
...Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. The State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand. The President this week will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans (his top aides have already visited Gettysburg to inform Dwight Eisenhower), issue a statement on Berlin at his midweek press conference, hold a planning session of the National Security Council...
...background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
Since then, Kennedy has taken the trouble to assure Lemnitzer that his counsel will still be heard. Remembering how difficult it was for him to break through to Dwight Eisenhower, Taylor has told the Joint Chiefs that he will help, not hinder, their access to the President. Furthermore, Taylor has pledged himself to inform the Joint Chiefs about any advice he gives his boss. Whenever possible, Taylor has said, he will consult with the Joint Chiefs before he sees the President. But Pentagon brass is still convinced that in a pinch. President Kennedy will rely on the advice...
Picked up for $50 by a suburban Chicago manuscript collector last week: a November 1942 letter from General Dwight D. Eisenhower to his son John, then a West Point underclassman. "This is a fine command," wrote Ike of the Allied troops he was about to lead into North Africa. ''And, of course, it is every soldier's ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon. I never once dreamed that my first command would be an 'Allied' one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great...