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Intelligence Officer Montagu had complete respect for his German opposite numbers. To fool them, the bluff would have to be consummately prepared. "Major William Martin" got not only a foolproof identity card. He carried a picture of "Pam," the girl he was "engaged" to, her last touching love letters, stubs of theater tickets, a dunning letter from a bank, a letter from his "father" and the usual pocket impedimenta. His identity-card photograph was that of a man who looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Was the Hero | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...making a blood count, technicians have to look through microscopes to determine the number of red cells in diluted blood samples. This takes time, and sometimes technicians make mistakes. Now researchers at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, working with electronics experts, have found a more foolproof blood-counter: a TV microscope. A small TV camera, mounted on a microscope, scans the blood on a slide. As the beam covers the slide, it counts the patches of light and dark made by the blood cells, and an electronic computer compensates for cells of varying sizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...white collar occupations are available' here as in any other industry. Good selling and desk jobs need filling for the aviation people in todays' complicated business environment, but companies don't scout for men to fill them. The search is for the future inventor of an economical rocket, a foolproof de-icer, or a radical new wing design...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenderg, | Title: Aviation Begins Its 2nd Half-Century | 12/17/1953 | See Source »

...Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer's poem, not Shakespeare's play ("You can't set Shakespeare's to music"), and the world's top opera houses have already made bids for the premiere. The story, adapted by British Librettist Christopher Hassall, is practically foolproof opera material. The scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Late-Blooming Prodigy | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

First stop for the presidential Constellation, the Columbine, was Minneapolis, where Ike was provided with a foolproof, all-American test of his popularity. Ten minutes before he was due to begin his speech to the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, officials ushered on to the stage beauteous Neva Jane Langley, Miss America of 1953. The screams and cheers which greeted Miss Langley lasted 35 seconds. When Ike appeared, the Jaycees, who represented some 2,500 U.S. communities, tore the house down for a minute and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back to the Source | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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