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...back-of-the-book sections, directed by Literary Editor Thomas Cuthbert Worsley, surprisingly little of this left-wing fuzziness appears. Worsley, who is also drama critic and chief puzzle-master (under such pseudonyms as "Thomas Smallbones"), leans heavily on a few steadily brilliant contributors: Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music), Patrick Heron (art), G. W. Stonier, who also writes as "William Whitebait," (books, cinema) and topflight Book Critic V. S. Pritchett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzles & Politics . | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...chiefly responsible for the company's notable record is Alexander R. Heron, Crown Zellerbach's thin, scholarly vice president and industrial relations chief, consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University. In a recent book, Why Men Work (Stanford University Press; $2.75), the latest choice of the Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: One Way to Peace | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Strolling along on the banks of the Nile, he came across a water carrier consuming the remains of a large Ibis, a North African heron who sports a magnificent bone. A crocodile had beaten the fellahin to the Ibis feast, and the native was about to attack the remains with a large knife, when Rothenberg stayed his hand with "fellow, spare that bone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Mantelpiece Wishbones Once Flew from India to England | 8/8/1947 | See Source »

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