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Back to Business Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott insisted two weeks ago that he had "no more idea than a jackrabbit" of resigning, despite the disclosures about his part-time business activities (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) After President Eisenhower read the 471-page Senate subcommittee hearings on Talbott, the Secretary resigned and the President promptly accepted his resignation, saying that it was the "right" thing...
Last week, the day after Bridges' 54th birthday, Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman read his ten-page verdict. Its substance: the Government had failed to prove Bridges' "membership in the Communist Party by clear and convincing evidence." "How's that for a birthday present, Harry?" shouted a longshoreman. Grinned Bridges: "That's great...
Curator Barr was particularly proud of his two new Matisses (donated by John Hay Whitney and Samuel Marx). One, called Goldfish and Sculpture, he had been hoping to get for years. The other was The Moroccans (see color page), a 9-ft.-wide canvas that Matisse painted in 1916 and kept for himself through his life. Barr, a careful and scholarly sort, unhesitatingly describes it as "the greatest Matisse this side of Moscow...
...battle for newspaper circulation in Chicago, Marshall Field Jr. last week primed a new weapon for his tabloid Sun-Times: Midwest, a 48- to 56-page Sunday rotogravure magazine, to be out next month. Not only does Field want to bring back the 25,000 readers the Sunday Sun-Times lost (present circulation: 587,630) when it boosted the price from 10? to 15?; he hopes to bring in another 25,000 new readers. To run Midwest, Field brought in Veteran Editor Jonathan Kilbourn, 39, who will develop a Sunday magazine different from Parade, which the Sun-Times uses...
Except for its loving re-creation of England in wartime and an explosive 20-page finale of beachhead action (Canadian-born Author Shapiro himself covered Sicily, Salerno and Normandy as a war correspondent), there is less reason for The Sixth of June to be remembered than remaindered. The fact that it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August may make it an automatic bestseller, but it will strike many readers as 31 days' praise too many...