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...richest publishing empire? Among its top managers and likely to continue so: Richard E. Berlin, president of the Hearst Corp.; Richard A. Carrington Jr., publisher of the Chief's favorite paper, the Los Angeles Examiner; the Examiner's top editorial man, Editor Raymond T. Van Ettisch; Jacob D. Gortatowsky, 65, general manager of the Hearst newspapers; E. D. Coblentz, 68, of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; Walter (Front Page) Howey, editor of American Weekly...
...rocked in hand sieves and dumped on sorting tables. The diggers (who will pay De Beers 10% of their finds) were a mixed lot. Among them were a monocled Scot known as "Donal the Duke"; bearded, Bible-carrying "Uncle Pete the Sky Pilot," and big, burly, sombrero-wearing Jacob Venter, 51, who has spent half his life looking for diamonds...
This would be annoying enough to Harry Truman. But what fixed the fascinated gaze of political observers was a cloud on the political horizon no bigger than the hand of little Jacob Arvey, Illinois Democratic boss. Appearing on a TV program with Douglas, Arvey dutifully stated that the Illinois delegation at the National Convention would support Mr. Truman if he chose to run. If not, said Arvey, "there are a great many people who . . . look on Senator Douglas as a presidential candidate." When Douglas once more disavowed any such ambitions, Arvey mentioned his liking for Ike Eisenhower, whom Arvey backed...
...Kremlin, Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik, who in June gave the cue for the Korean truce talks (TIME, July 2), received a delegation of British Quakers. Would Russia promise, the Quakers asked Malik, not to fire up revolutions in the West, provided the West stayed away from the Iron Curtain? Malik replied, by quoting his boss Stalin in a 1936 interview: "To attempt to export revolution is nonsense. Without the desire within a country, there will be no revolution...
...painted from a photograph of the king in bowler and overcoat, pointing up the resemblance of the monarch to his bearded horse-trainer. At 74 he was made a Royal Academician, huffily resigned the following year because other Academy members failed to come to the defense of controversial Sculptor Jacob Epstein. In his last years, he changed his signature (from Walter to his middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard and even changed his style. He painted oil versions of Victorian engravings by such artists as Cruikshank and Sir John Gilbert which were as highly...