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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpierced Facade | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Notwithstanding his man-of-distinction look, Joe Alsop is a journalist, and a good one. His political acumen (the result of well-applied apprentice years) and his writing (a clear cut above the loose or labored journalese of many colleagues) have earned him a reputation as one of the half-dozen best commentators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Act | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Act | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No Hatred | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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