Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & Happy. The trouble with any plans for Japan's economic future was that most of the area with which she needs to trade was either held or threatened by the Communists. The Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow...
...Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way. You must be Joan of Arc!" Bérard, his friends believe, was the real begetter of the "New Look...
...gregarious, Hadden preferred the company of ragamuffins to that of stuffed shirts, liked to give and go to parties, once wound one up by setting out with an air rifle for a rat hunt in a friend's apartment. While editor of TIME he still played baseball in Central Park, or got up at 6 a.m. to play catch with his apartment janitor. But he had sublimated his ambition to be a baseball star into a desire to make $1,000,000 before he was 30. He also hoped one day to own the New York Yankees...
Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp bill to finance conservation measures), Senator Walcott helped write the law which...
...tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...