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...hand and the review in mind throughout the year. Pertinent oddities like Businessman Baxter's hymn to his country, to Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going on in the Chicago area and a neat symbol thereof: the sign on a Peoria barbershop which read, "Joe's shop is a two-chair shop...
...Informer. To some of his colleagues, his fear of Communism seemed a morbid preoccupation, a kind of King Charles's head. He was valued, nevertheless, not only for his firsthand knowledge of Communism but for his outstanding skill in writing and his wide cultural background. He had also become a genuinely religious man: a Quaker...
William S. Honneus, advertising manager of TIME International, returned recently from an extensive business trip to Western Europe with a dossier full of firsthand observations of the European scene. The following excerpts from his personal account may serve to add another viewpoint to the excellent reports of the trained correspondents of the U.S. press abroad...
...most U.S. Episcopalians already knew, the unofficial Churchman had long been noted for its friendliness to the friends of Russia, its frequent blasts against U.S. foreign policy. Editor Shipler himself had been in hot water last fall after his firsthand report that there was no suppression of religious freedom in Communist Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, Shipler admitted that Marshall had suddenly decided not to accept the award...
That realism just suited the Wild West he wanted to paint: the lurid desert sunsets, the cowboys and Indians, bucking broncs and buffaloes. Leigh roamed the vast raw country on horseback, turned east with a firsthand knowledge second only to Frederic Remington's. "Those tired old nags at the rodeo," he says chuckling into his snowy cavalry mustache, "don't know the first thing about bucking." Invited on two scientific expeditions to Africa, Leigh sketched constantly and confidently, came back to paint a series of vivid panoramas for the New York Museum of Natural History's African...