Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry was run by the national government; state governments had disappeared. Each industry was organized along military lines. Each citizen, from 21 to 45, worked at a trade of his own choosing. (The alternative: bread & water.) At 45, all were retired, and the years thereafter were the best and happiest part of a man's life. The retired workers in each branch of industry elected the managers of it, those still employed having no vote. The ten heads of the different branches of industry formed a council which governed the nation. They elected the President from their own number...
...happiest observer of this cultural-financial comeback was one of the country's whitest-robed musical angels: chubby, mild-mannered Henry H. Reichhold (TIME, Dec. 18), underwriter of the Detroit Symphony's resurgence. A rich, German born manufacturer (Reichhold Chemicals Inc.) who has fiddled as a hobby, Angel Reichhold, 43, could now sit with more than usual pride in his usual box, congratulating himself that his solvent godchild was also a Manhattan-approved artistic success...
...months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways. When Dr. Biesanz went into the Army, Mrs. Biesanz finished his report. Costa Rican Life (Columbia University Press; $3), published this month, is a lighter-reading, 272-page Middletown of Central America's cleanest, happiest country. Some findings...
...years, Billy says, he has refused anyone "the privilege of putting a penny" in his ventures. "I am more comfortable on my own. Top stars are problem children, and I am reconciled to being an emotional janitor." But lately he has been happiest when he could get away from it all and concentrate on fitting up his new offices. "A Chippendale chair," he remarks, "can't talk back...
...Happiest about Bullock's appointment was former Parole Chairman Reuben L. Lurie. In Boston, bedeviled by uneasy racial relations, the appointment seemed a step toward a new atmosphere. Said Bullock: "It's a great thing for my people...