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...remarks were released in the press, they sent a cold shiver through the hearts of scores of politicos who had hoped the President would do their big vote-getting for them in 1954. Next day G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall hustled over to the White House to get a first-hand interpretation from the Chief...
...Antonio Pollaiuolo (1429-98) carefully studied a corpse with its skin peeled away for his Battle of the Nudes, Pollaiuolo had just discovered muscles. As a result, his Nudes bulged with biceps like characters from one of Bernarr Macfadden's "beefcake" magazines. Pollaiuolo was the first artist to make a first-hand study of what lay under the skin, and he touched off an artistic revolution. How far that revolution carried was shown last week by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art in an exhibit of Art and Anatomy...
Nine Business School students will travel to France this summer to study problems of French industry first-hand...
TIME is also able to count on the first-hand experiences of its writers and correspondents to fill in gaps in the Russian story. Of the five writers who put together last week's section, DEATH IN THE KREMLIN, one was a war correspondent on the Russian front during World War II. Another, as head of the United Press bureau at the U.N., covered the doings of Vishinsky, Molotov, Malik, Gromyko & Co., and their satellite supporters. In addition, TIME'S bureau chiefs in all the world capitals regularly report on the parts of the story that filter into...
...power they would change little, they have adopted the most negative sort of conservatism." The General's Baltimore speech of September 26th indicated the way in which he would change much in operating for Security with Solvency by attacking the large segment of our National Budget with a first-hand knowledge of the weapons' picture, the nature of inter-service rivalries and the conditions which lead to wastage in procurement...