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Then his troubles began. The forwarding agent told him that to secure payment, he must submit six copies of his bill to a bank. Three times he went to the bank, waited in long queues, while orders piled up at his one-man workshop...
Troubleshooter. Capa was always getting in & out of such scrapes, partly because his job was to find trouble, and partly because his pidgin-toed English was not always a help. But he came back with pictures that are an eloquent one-man record of World War II. Last week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before...
This week, as the Dodgers raced toward the finish seven games ahead, it was at least arguable that Jackie Robinson had furnished the margin of victory. The Dodgers are certainly not a one-man ball club. They have a bull-necked powerhouse of a catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose special talents are steadiness and hustle. In Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stanky, both short of height but long on skill, they have the best keystone combination in the league. The Dodgers also have a special affection for 34-year-old relief pitcher Hugh Casey, who has come onto...
Having read your article on Harold Stassen [TIME, Aug. 25], the writer conducted a one-man poll on the 1948 election. The result -one Republican vote if Stassen is nominated-otherwise a vote reluctantly cast for Harry Truman. PAUL SABINE Tucson, Ariz...
...basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...