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...editor of LIFE (and grandson of the late Michael Piel, co-founder of New York's Piel Bros, brewery), persuaded two friends to join him in buying Scientific American, about all the three got for their $40,000 were 5,000 solid subscribers, a Manhattan office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light of the technological revolution, Piel clearly foresaw the rise of a new breed of technological...
...Tell them I'm finger painting," said veteran Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long
...states that tolerate "nonprofit" colleges without a charter or license, the typical mill's campus is a small-town post-office box. For $150 and up, the mill sells such degrees as Doctor of Divinity in Metaphysics, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, "Master Herbalsits" (sic). The signatories are such lustrous personages as "Archbishop John...
Ferras' legato passages spun out in long, honeyed strands of sound; his attack in the cadenza was as crisp as vellum. Throughout, he displayed a sweeping, rhythmic flair, a fluent, coolly lustrous tone. His Brahms had about it a quality of molded passion that far older artists might envy...
Army General Maxwell Taylor, 57, completing a four-year tour, as Chief of Staff, will retire. Best bet to replace Taylor: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 59, Vice Chief of Staff, like Taylor a paratrooper and holder of a lustrous field record in World War II and Korea, trusted friend of Dwight Eisenhower since serving as Ike's assistant chief of staff for the North African campaign...