Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Previous Heil finds: a Verrocchio marble statue on a Manhattan art dealer's window sill (TIME, March 14, 1949) and a Gentile Bellini Doge in the drawer of a Florentine art shop (TIME, April...
Golden Ghetto. Opposed to the no-goodniks are the do-gooders, who, according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book...
...York's Idlewild Airport, a woman from his publisher's office met him with a copy of the unsigned, poison-pen letter-neatly typed, grammatically written and essentially correct. "Harry Golden," it said, "is an ex-convict" who once ran a stock-racketeering Manhattan "bucket shop." Barrel-shaped, cigar-chewing Harry Golden smiled long and thoughtfully. "I've been expecting it for some time," said...
Matsushita himself came up by frugality and work that was hard even by Japanese standards. Born in Osaka, son of a merchant who lost his kimono selling rice, Konosuke quit school in the fourth grade to go to work in a bicycle shop. At 17 he saw the electric streetcars come in. concluded the future lay in electricity, got a job with the Osaka Electric Light Co. His lack of education blocked promotion, so he saved and borrowed $98 to open a factory in his home...
...living room hangs a superb Sassetta tryptich, one which Berenson found in an antique shop moments before its intended destruction for wood panels. It overlooks a deeply lit sanctum of well worn opulence. A recording of Verdi's Requiem rested upon one of two pianos. Copies of The Reporter and other magazines of contemporary interest covered a large center table. Aesthetics and history have both impassioned B.B., whose thirst for knowledge has been watered by immense energy. But Berenson's soul is of a renaissance tint and its tempo, plus, of course, the weight of his convictions...