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Paper Profits. Brookings' 34-page report was prepared by Joseph Mayer, 57, a slender eyebrow-mustached economist-author (Bigger Men in Bigger Jobs, The Regulation of Commercialized Vice). As vith all Brookings reports, it was carefully scanned by bald, pudgy Harold G. Moulton, Institution president, and given a preface by way of approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: All Wrong but Brookings | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...tall and pale, with slender legs and a generous bust. Her long black hair had a natural curl. "She had no illusions, and was frankly infatuated with herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Papa, Goodbye | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Press Wireless officials were astonished by their brilliant coup. When sandy, slender Albert McGeagh landed in France with seven men and a mobile transmitter, he had no idea of bridging the Atlantic. His power was only 400 watts-little stronger than many a radio ham's shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Twenty Minutes from Broadway | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Perhaps the busiest official in Washington last week was James Vincent Forrestal, 52, a slight, slender man with a broken nose, a man who once told an interviewer that his hobby was "obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Servant | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Late in 1916, after serving a tour of duty along the Mexican border, young Lieut. Bradley married his high-school classmate, slender, pretty Mary Elizabeth Quayle, daughter of his Moberly Sunday School teacher. Mrs. Bradley, who insists that she loved all their Army posts-even Brookings, S.D.- is now living at West Point. Their only daughter, Elizabeth, is to be married in June to Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, the Academy's famed geopolitical lecturer (and another 1915 classmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Doughboy's General | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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