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...terms in Congress. One of the agency friends knew that Obie had already drawn Cannon. A hurried exchange of phone calls followed, and genial Obie readily agreed to lend the new magazine his Joe Cannon portrait for its cover. Thus, he was the first of some 70 artists of renown (including Diego Rivera and James Thurber, who did their own portraits) who have drawn the parade of world figures on more than 1,600 TIME covers...
...founded his company during World War I at the age of 25, and quickly proved himself a nimble idea man. For his first big account he coined the phrase "Bulova Watch Time." For Eversharp, Inc. he invented radio's $64 Question, saw the sum of money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest U.S. advertising agency...
...Constantine Nivola. Actually, Nivola, who is an instructor at the School of Design, did for a time attend the Institute Superiore d'Arte of Milan. The school, modeled after Germany's famed Bauhaus, was intended to give Italian architects and designers the same scientific theoretical training that established the renown of the great German academy. In a typically Italian manner, Nivola comments that the institute at Milan didn't even get around to translating the Bauhaus' declaration of principles. "Freedom was the main thing," Nivola recalls, "just like the Renaissance...
...Lyric Productions company are engaged in a gamble that has never paid off in Boston--they are trying to establish a permanent repertory theatre which aims at artistic as well commercial success. Their first effort has its weaknesses, not the least being Thieves' Carnival's previously limited renown. The group therefore relied on its own talents and not the reputation of its vehicle to draw an audience. Fortunately, almost the entire company is skillful enough to deserve a measure of success...
...oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship and reappeared. But their prospects were gloomy under Rojas Pinilla, who seemed to be bucking for renown as Latin America's stubbornest tyrant...