Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection of the best stories in the Old Testament. For some years he had been collecting the originals of the TIME portraits of Texans-who have appeared on our cover. When Oxford University Press agreed to publish the Old Testament stories, Publisher Harte wanted them illustrated in the new kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe was the only one who felt that he could devote all of his time to the project. Harte gave...
Edward J. Dowling is a pretty big man in Indianapolis. Fact is, only a couple of weeks ago Ed was elected president of Rotary. But the boys had to get along without Ed at the Tuesday luncheons at the Claypool because he was off traveling. Ed's the kind of a fellow who, when he decides to go some place, throws some socks and shaving stuff into a bag and starts. Eighteen months ago he sold his business (chocolate-covered cherries) and decided to see some of the world, maybe combine traveling with a little business. Ed asked...
...very soon, the mayor began getting into the kind of difficulty that has marked every one of his later regimes--he borrowed money far and above the city's income. He mortgaged most of Boston's real estate, spent taxes that were to be collected in the following year, secured loans indiscriminately from any bank that would give them. Consequently, he incurred the wrath of not only the bankers who had lost control of the city, but also of many voters who didn't care to see his mysterious financing reflected in tax rate hikes...
...tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded. In his organization, he put political backers and ward-heelers where, for his own good, he should have put administrators...
Casting for the production was completed last night. The four sinners include Connaught O'Connell '52 as Estelle; Carla Freidman '52 as Inez; Edward W. Franklin 3L as Garcon; and Jerry Kohn '52 as the valet. All action takes place in "a new kind of hell," an ornately decorated room where the characters must spend eternity in each others' presence...