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...managers all over the world, cables and detailed monthly reports all flow directly to Reed in New York. He is constantly mulling ways to expand and improve the company's business. He seldom goes to bed before 2 a.m., frequently wakes up in the night to scrawl notes on the pad beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: TRAVEL | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...have an interest in a specific problem. He can and does hold over their heads the fact that if they do not arrive at a reasonable solution he will write the recommendation himself-and his is the one that goes to President Eisenhower marked with the all-important scrawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: O.K., S.A. | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

When Publisher Rene Julliard saw the first verses in Minou's childish scrawl, he thought he had found a literary prodigy even greater than his last discovery. Teenager Franchise Sagan. whose short, sexy Bonjour Tristesse is an international bestseller. He brought Minou from Brittany, along with 49-year-old Spinster Claude Drouet. who had adopted the child at age of two. Then he brought out a slim limited edition containing ten poems and ten poesy-struck lett&rs. Sample: I picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rage of Paris | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Shirtless and sun-blackened, Bill Falls's body lay face upward under one wing of the crumpled Taylorcraft. Near by was a scrawl-filled notebook addressed to Charles Schrieber. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: A Desert Tale | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

There is a widespread academic tendency to pass off Thomas Wolfe as an undisciplined child, as "wild little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intimations of Immortality | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

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