Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ability to bring the immediate fruits of peace to China. By war and sabotage they had prevented the resumption of normal life after China's liberation. Now the mere end of fighting'would bring a resumption of trade and a measure of (relative) prosperity. What would happen when Mao Tse-tung no longer needed to tread softly would be another-and a grimmer-story...
What Will Happen in 1949 (Sat. 9 p.m., Mutual). Guesses by 13 undismayed experts about the future...
Throwing a Switch. From his first official act in 1921, when he pressed all 15 buzzers on his desk just to see what would happen (15 department heads streamed into his office), Holcombe's political career has never been dull. He lost four mayoralty campaigns, but was always voted back into office after Houston got a good taste of someone else...
...When I visit the museum of fine arts and look at the pictures, and when I happen to admire them, I don't first assure myself that the painter was a good man . . . [But] is it possible that the visible presence of the artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point...
...written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...