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...plaintive entry in the Yule log at Honolulu police headquarters: a crew of canny thieves got into the sumptuous home of venerable (76) Multycoon (steel, cement, jeeps, aluminum) Henry J. Kaiser, filched a $500 watch and a sackful of other expensive trifles from underneath the Christmas tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans had fought each other in two world wars, and in them more than a million Britons had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lest They Forgive | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...naughtiness, but for his judgment of political matters, I have no regard." Now the advocate of British disarmament at any price, Russell not long ago was arguing learnedly for a preventive war against Russia. Years before, he was fiercely opposed to Britain's defending itself against the Kaiser's Germany. Groused Rowse: "You need to be very clever to be so silly as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Errant Intellectuals | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

STEEL Allegheny Ludlum $1.2 $2.0 Jones & Laughlin 6.7 11.4 Kaiser 1.9 (loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profits: Reaching Higher | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...plastics were an attempt to teach man what he had forgotten-to dream with his eyes open." Using a jig saw, he made inexpensive wood reliefs around such motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they began yellowing and spotting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Strange Fruit | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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