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Stevenson's public service began in the pioneering days of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1933, he went to Washington as special counsel under George N. Peek, administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. At the end of 1935, he returned to Chicago to practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Westerners recently to get a peek behind the Iron Curtain is a lanky young London banker named John Lindsay Eric Smith. Scion of a family who have been bankers since 1688, Smith went to Eton and Oxford, served in the fleet air arm, and is now a managing director of Coutts' bank. Excerpts from his report on Russia in The National & English Review, a Conservative monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ONE MAN'S LOOK AT RUSSIA | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Peek-a-Boe is packed with humor and nonsence at the Translux...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

...test is much more fun if you don't peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

While their parents, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, were busy packing for their trip to Canada and the U.S. (see THE HEMISPHERE), the royal train carrying Princess Anne and Prince Charles home to London from Balmoral stopped at Aberdeen. The young prince decided to have a peek at the outside world, hefted his little sister to the nearest window to share the view, where a photographer got a picture of the wide-eyed little tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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