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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War II Weston had a chance to study his favorite subject on its home grounds-as a private, later a 2nd lieutenant, in the U.S. Army in Europe. He talked to heraldic scholars and added some valuable source books to his collection. He also found out that his hobby is a fighting subject-after a clash with a Belgian soldier on a blacked-out train over what arms should be assigned to the present wife of Belgium's King Leopold...
...weeks after Weston landed his postwar job at TIME, Nick Samstag, TIME'S Promotion Director, found out that he was a qualified expert in this study of the shields, crests and supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience...
...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
...liver. Afterwards, Frankie took to the needle because it was easier than coping with life. When Frankie killed Louie Fomorowski, who sold him the stuff, the cops broke Sparrow down and made him squeal. They caught up with Frankie in his flophouse hideaway, broke in the door, and found the man with the golden arm dead. Frankie had hanged himself...
From that point on to its tragic end, most of Call It Treason is Happy's story. His plane had been spotted, and he found himself in a world where everybody seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just the right moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared...