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In analyzing Cabot's work, George Putnam Jr. '49 of the Putnam Management Co., states that the Treasurer has "followed the accepted Massachusetts Trustee Practice of maintaining a balance between good quality common stocks and high-grade fixed income securities." In conclusion, Putnam reports that the "Harvard Endowment Fund again...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Treasurer Cabot Invests $308,000,000 | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

Next day copies of the Army's "bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Gathering Storm | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TWO CURRENTS | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Despite a few stirring moments and occasionally, beautiful imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Lowell's Knights of the High Table | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

Beauties of the Night (Franco-London; United Artists). "If a workman were sure of dreaming every night that he was a king," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who dreamt every night that he was a workman." Borrowing plots from great philosophers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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