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Student Eisenhower won't get his grades until the night of November 4. But meanwhile, nobody can say that a man of unique experience did not cram another piece of priceless education into the last five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Man of Experience | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Attraction. Both men have charm and the priceless quality of attracting first-rate men to work with them. Eisenhower seems to have more of both qualities; at least his attraction has been more widely tested and proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Bare Bones | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...producing just what the doctor ordered takes more than miles of pipes and mountains of materials. It also takes the priceless catalysts of knowledge and character. Those ingredients are well compounded in the man who transformed Merck & Co. from a modest company making a conventional line of drugs and other chemicals into a flourishing medical pioneer. He is Merck's Chairman George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Public Trust. At 58, George Merck looks like the priceless catalyst in this whole process that he is. A blond, blue-eyed giant (6 ft. 5 in.) with an easy smile and an exuberant capacity for work (he spends his days, he says, "half at the New York office, half at Rahway, and half at home"), he takes his company's role and reputation with dedicated seriousness. Wihen Merck researchers find a new product, the company gets it on the market as fast as it can, then lowers the price as fast as production will allow. Within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...speeches, no controversial pronouncements, but enough pleasant appearances to make himself seen and heard as a wit, raconteur and friend of all Democrats. Such Barkley-style backslapping and storytelling will not get him to Chicago with many delegates in his pocket. But they are part of a priceless asset: he is the Democratic Party's best-loved leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Amiable, Available | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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