Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most extensive TIME has ever run. The work of committing it to paper, however, was considerably helped by the insistence of Joseph Purtell, Senior Editor for Business & Finance, that everyone concerned with it-from researchers to correspondents in the field-keep his facts at hand and the review in mind throughout the year. Pertinent oddities like Businessman Baxter's hymn to his country, to Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going...
...disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...
Libyans for world citizenship. A fair man with a toothbrush mustache and an American accent was saying: "I think I was born in Holland-I think so, mind you." Another young man, very dark and ill-shaven, introduced himself to me crisply: "I am the French press attache of this movement. I was appointed only yesterday, so there is little I can tell you about Garry Davis. However, I can tell you a lot about the Trotskyists, with whom I used to have numerous affiliations...
...homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol of a scared and muddled generation. His intellectual baggage may be designed for air travel, but Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear, canny mind which constantly surprises his intellectual French colleagues. He used to be a playboy, but now he abstains from smoking, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Although born in Bar Harbor, Maine, he considers Philadelphia his home town. As a bomber pilot he executed seven missions, was shot down on the last...
Near Peiping, an American professor of English at Tsinghua University encountered a group of Communist soldiers while bicycling. "I am an American," he said. "We don't mind," one of the soldiers replied. "We understand not all Americans are against us." The soldier added with a grin: "We also understand Madame Chiang is not having much success...