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Like a naked schoolboy on the edge of summer's first plunge, Congress last week stood shivering on the brink of a new tax bill. For four weeks the House Ways and Means Committee had stared bleakly at the dark waters into which Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (TIME, May 5) gloomily urged them. One day they closed their eyes, held their noses, and jumped...
...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
Rabelaisian, old Bartlett Arkell rounded off 50 years last week as first and only president of still-booming Beech-Nut Packing Co. Sadly he stepped up to chairman, and turned the active management over to his son, Clark. But no one expected this schoolboy's dream of a success to end here. There was still plenty of kick left...
When Morris Sheppard was a schoolboy in Wheatville, Tex., he studied physiology. One illustration in the class textbook was a study of a drunkard's stomach, done in passionate colors. He never got over it, and last week he died a teetotaler...
...task as big as the U. S. itself. The job is enormous to the point of incomprehensibility. The U. S. press, trying to tell the nation about the defense program, finds itself measuring Mt. Everest with a schoolboy's ruler. There are scarcely words big enough to say what is happening to the country...