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...working on plans to make the college itself a four-year campus. But first, he wanted to make sure that it would be a real community center-a place that every Flint citizen, young or old, would be proud of. "Then," said Mr. Flint, "I'll give 'em a million dollars. And then, we can talk about giving them some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. Flint at Work | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente's most frequent injunction to underlings is "Give 'em action! No monkeying around . . ." That was the kind of language the directors liked; they called him back as president from semiretirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Man of Action | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...flints, are only a few feet high and can be entered only by crawling on one's belly. The custodian was disgusted when we refused his offer of a torch with which to explore these workings. "Why," he said, "I've had people lost in 'em for two days or more." He told us that archeologists estimate that the earliest mining took place on the site of Grime's Graves about 10,000 B.C., and that they were last worked approximately 2,500 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Harry Truman took up on Labor Day 1952 where he had left off in November 1948. After "giving 'em hell" at whistle-stop appearances in Pittsburgh and Crestline, Ohio, the President addressed a rally of C.I.O.-A.F.L. members in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: No Charity | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...em take it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Bare Bones | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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