Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long admired the excellent likenesses of the world's leading citizens, both good and bad, which your artists have painted for the covers of TIME. I am, however, disgusted at the caricature of Andre Malraux which appears on your July 18 cover. You have a very good Art section, which supports modern art very well. That is where this portrait, which is not at all a bad example of its type, belongs. But please keep that kind of stuff off the covers...
...Yugoslav army affairs, the U.S. did not press the right that it reserves, under all military assistance treaties, to examine the use to which its military aid is put. But now that the time has come to repair or replace some of the hardware, the U.S. Military Assistance Section in Belgrade (about 40 officers and men) asked to take a look at the Yugoslav troops and installations to measure replacement needs. The Yugoslavs stonily refused...
...thought I had seen everything till I saw my copy of TIME, July 11. A cover and a large section of the Business section devoted to Beer! I am shocked, offended and ashamed...
...July 11 issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly for the whim of it-collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received praise from his boss and the Senate committee. I wonder if it was with premeditation or happenstance that TIME placed these sad tales side by side to illustrate this inequality of our scales of justice...
...make room for a veterans' hospital near Cleveland in 1949, the Veterans Administration bought 14 big houses in a choice suburban section. Among them was the nine-bedroom, three-story home of Alexander Brady, a retired Erie Railroad executive who had paid $12,000 for the house in 1943, sold it to the Government for $31,500. (Since appraised at $67,857.) Brady and neighbors were allowed to rent their homes on a month-to-month basis "until such time as the premises are ... actually needed for purpose for which purchased." Later, the VA changed its mind about building...