Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tangible Assets. But the Russians could afford to bide their time. They had tangible assets. There was popular King Mihai, who, with Marshal Tito, is the only Balkan leader to receive the exalted Soviet Order of Victory medal. There was Premier Peter Groza, Soviet stooge and physical culture enthusiast, whose family remains in his native Transylvania while he lives with his mistress in Bucharest. There were the only two divisions of Rumanian troops repatriated, after proper indoctrination, from Russia. They constituted an incipient praetorian guard...
Publisher William B. Ziff, amateur aviation enthusiast and determined author (The Gentlemen Talk of Peace), is the man behind the Romford plan. Explains Ziff: "My son went to an ordinary prep school, but his real education was picked up in our home-meeting the industrialists, statesmen, journalists and educators who are my friends." Ziff wanted to see a school with "the advantages of a first-class salon...
Sheeler's most recent picture, an oil storage tank surmounted by steel stairs, demonstrated how perfectly his antiseptic style applies to machine-age constructions. The title: It's a Small World (see cut). According to one enthusiast: "If . . . the dynamo has become a 20th-century Virgin, then Sheeler is its Fra Angelico...
...confused with William Douglas Pawley, 49, aviation enthusiast, founder of Central Aircraft Mfg. Co. (China's first), godfather of the Flying Tigers, now U.S. Ambassador to Peru...
...World War II, Gordon N. Ray, a young Thackeray enthusiast, traveled to England on a money grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes...