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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was a soldier of the old U.S. Army. A lean, bowlegged cavalryman, he spent his happiest days in the hard-riding, spur and saber atmosphere of the vanishing Army posts of the West. In an age that produced Army men of many talents-generals who could double as diplomats, showmen, orators or businessmen-"Skinny" Wainwright, a fine horseman,* a crack shot and an all-round good officer, was never anything but a soldier. He had no conspicuous hobbies, outstanding social virtues or noteworthy vices. But his men believed in him, and they followed him to the limit...
...paneled Paris office overlooking the Etoile last week sat a grey-haired, lean and elegant Frenchman, chain-smoking Havana cigars. In his buttonhole, Pierre Wertheimer, 65, wore the emblem of the Legion of Honor; on his glass-topped desk stood row after row of perfume bottles and boxes of cosmetics. They, too, were emblems of achievement. For Pierre Wertheimer, a man so shy that few have ever heard of him (he permits no photographs), is the world's perfume king. He owns the Bourjois and Chanel companies, bosses 3,000 employees in plants from Rochester, N.Y. to London, sells...
Across the narrow seas, Britain's urban millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...
Enthusiasm at the Limits. Looking over the roster of G.O.P. governors, Ike could easily spot some able evangelists to lead his new political action team. He would, of course, lean heavily on Tom Dewey, who is internationally famous, a standout executive, and a veteran leader in the liberal Republican movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton...
...hail-fellow Eisenhower advocate whose performance has confounded the armchair analysts and won wide approval among the voters. In Illinois, Bill Stratton, another dark horse, had accomplished things that Adlai Stevenson had failed to get done (TIME, July 13). And in Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes of an intellectual, the manners of a patrician and the pithy record of a politician, was causing a stir that rippled far beyond the shores of Massachusetts Bay. For Herter, Tom Dewey had a succinct appraisal: "He's the cream...