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For two busy, windswept days last week, Japan's Premier toured Osaka and Kobe, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in a brisk, U.S.-style election campaign. He made a big hit. A caretaker Premier for only ten weeks, savvy Old Politician Hatoyama was determined to win a longer lease on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Face | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Chalk & Flour. The day their prize outfielder was separated from the Army, the Giants had a savvy scout named Frank Forbes, 61, waiting at the gate to take him in tow. An oldtime Negro athlete (baseball, basketball and boxing), Forbes is the professional godfather to the Giants' Negro ballplayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Most dealers blame overproduction for their troubles, chiefly because of the race between Ford and Chevrolet for first place. Others blame dealers themselves for the wild & woolly sales blitz last fall to clear out 1953 stocks to make room for new models. The result: customers got the idea that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Many Cars? | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Three Essentials. How the President goes about this task is his problem. But any observer of Washington knows that he has to insist that his own lieutenants show rudimentary political savvy in dealing with McCarthy. Next, he has to clarify the U.S. strategy against Communism, especially in the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The McCarthy Issue | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Speaker Frank Shea talked on South America and the Middle East. He was in the psychological warfare branch of OWI in the Middle East during the war, later went into the Balkans as a State Department coordinator for the U.S. Information Service ("As if anyone could coordinate the Balkans"). He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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