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Love built his empire on a shoestring. Son of a Harvard math professor, he studied economics at Harvard ('17), helped to edit the Crimson. In World War I, as an infantry major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Textiles' Turnabout Tycoon | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

During the opening sessions the well-financed Russians had comparatively little to say. Most striking papers came from Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, whose single seagoing ship, the battered schooner Vema, is a midget compared to the Lomonosov and more than once has been embarrassed in out-of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Oceans Grew | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

The broad-faced driver has never before been a headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Out of the Turns | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The prosecution's case was clear enough. The mess sergeant testified that Pfc. God, knife in hand, had removed the eyes in thick wedges, sliced off random peels in flat slabs (instead of removing them nice and thin). Then the mess sergeant, armed with a potato and peeler, earnestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from God | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

"It sounds like a swell life," I said. "When do I work?" -The Sun Also Rises In high-ceilinged studios and sunny flats littered with children's toys, a new kind of American-artist-abroad is at work in Italy these days. Scorning the cognac-and-champagne antics of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Non-Beatniks | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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