Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studied with Harvard's late Paul J. Sachs, no fewer than 16 became U.S. museum directors and curators.* The son of Samuel Sachs, a founder of the Wall Street firm Goldman, Sachs & Co., the 5-ft.-tall connoisseur started his career as a banker and wore a pearl stickpin. But his purchases were not at all conservative, ranging from Rembrandt to Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn and Alexander Calder. He bought them all, mainly their graphic works, and used his collection to teach two generations to appreciate...
Certainly, a legislator has a duty to speak out on controversial issues, but intentional destruction of one's draft card is a federal offense. Bond's statement, then, is not a constructive pearl of wisdom about a controversial issue but an irresponsible stand on an irresponsible, criminal...
Only a computer could master his tremendous achievements during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, when the number of active Army divisions all but doubled, air combat groups almost tripled, and U.S. troop strength overseas rose from 192,000 to a million-the first of 8,000,000. Marshall had commanded a company in the Philippines and won commendations for coolness, and later for tactical brilliance in maneuvers. His equally cool competence in staff work became his great asset...
Squeak to Victory. Marshall could make mistakes, and his biographer follows the general's admirable practice of admitting them. For example, before Pearl Harbor, he told an incredulous correspondent, TIME'S Robert Sherrod, that in a future Pacific war, the role of heavy long-range bombers would be decisive. As it turned out, the B-17s produced no early miracles. After the Battle of Midway ("the closest squeak and the greatest victory"), it was clear to Marshall that the Navy's carrier-based fighter-bombers were the big weapon against Japan...
...Kiesinger cover, TIME examines the mood of Germany and finds a democracy concerned with many of the problems that democracies everywhere face. Our recent coverage of Japan reflects similar concerns.There are no serious threats of major war, no dictators lurking in the background. It makes Pearl Harbor, and the four years that followed, seem fortunately distant...