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...this has made a key man of the radio recording engineer. And at the top of this man's world is a woman: softspoken, 35-year-old Mary Howard. Arturo Toscanini, like many another perfectionist, believes that she makes the best U.S. recordings, bestows on her one of his rare accolades: "She does a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perfectionist | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Perfectionist. In Neosho, Mo., Gravedigger Walter Mitchell suffered a heart attack while digging a grave, dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...serviceman stars. The line, a coach's dream, bristles with the likes of ex-Gob Zygmont Czarobski, a 213-lb. bonecrusher tackle, and 205-lb. End Jim Martin, a husky ex-Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty, slippery Emil Sitko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Like Leahy, 180-lb. Johnny Lujack is a perfectionist. Every fake has to be a magician's maneuver. He knows the blocking variations of every basic Leahy play-not only for himself but for every man on the team-and frequently refreshes a forgetful player's memory in the huddle. An expert field general, he clicks with typical Leahy strategies: calling running plays in passing situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Plagued by the multiple complaints of a slowly convalescing world, retarded in attending to long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quo Vadimus? | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

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