Word: et
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington diplomatic circles, particularly the British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
...stepped Junious Myer Schine, 54, who has picked up over $30,000,000 worth of choice hotels* in less than three years in the business. He talked turkey to a group of California brokers who held a fat chunk of the trust certificates. To the consternation of Hilton et al., Schine last week paid $55 apiece for 51% of the certificates. For his $1,621,510 he got control of the hotel...
Cleveland Orchestra (Sat. 6 p.m., Mutual). Brahms's First Symphony, the Tambourin from Grétry's ballet Céphale et Procris. Conductor: Rudolph Ringwall...
...year also saw able new biographies of Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, et al, but only Franklin Roosevelt seemed likely to become a biographers' favorite in the way Lincoln was. The first books were by his friends: former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins' warm The Roosevelt I Knew and White House Physician, by Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, each of which was admiring and modest. But Son Elliott, in As He Saw It, and Louis Adamic in Dinner at the White House, attempted debatable projections of Roosevelt's international views...
...their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages up to 20,000 words of text per issue-the wordage of a novelette. It took science out of the moonlit fantasies of the Sunday supplement, made it understandable to millions yet acceptable to scientists, in maps, diagrams, pictures...