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...Gent In a Morning Coat. Before tackling his vast problems, McCloy spent some time sweeping away the musty remnants of military government. He ordered removal of all signs on U.S. homes proclaiming: "No Entrance for German Civilians"; he lifted a ban on Americans eating in German restaurants; he ordered all officials who come in contact with Germans to learn to speak German forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: HICOG with a Horn | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...last week explained HICOG's functions to TIME Correspondent David Richardson: "A high commissioner," he said, "is an ambassador with a great big horn. Whenever possible, he will talk quietly through the horn. Occasionally he may have to holler through it. But because he is, after all, a gent in a morning coat, he will count past 100 before he will even think of conking anyone with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: HICOG with a Horn | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Dick Harlow as a colorful gent who could always use a few more good football players. Just about the time that he was preparing his eleven for his almost annual Yale debacle, conjecture would reach the public prints on how Harvard could lure these few more good football players to Cambridge...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

MANNERS & MORALS ¶ A 24-year-old artist named Cock van Gent ran an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper offering her left ear for sale for $24,000; she explained that she would use the money for living expenses while pursuing her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...didn't exactly collide with any undergraduate dog breeder, but the visit turned up a gent whose mother raises retrievers, another (Class of '06) who appreciated fine pointers, and a yokel from New Hampshire who lived for boxers and vice versa...

Author: By Ernest L. Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

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