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Soft Heart. Easygoing Jack Northrop, who admits that he is "too softhearted" to be a good boss, knew that he was a better designer than administrator. In 1949 he took a back seat to a new chairman and general manager, Oliver P. Echols, a retired Air Force major general who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Grand Slam | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Set off against some forceful battle sequences that make use of authentic stock war footage is a cast of not-so-authentic stock characters. Among them: a hardboiled, softhearted colonel (Frank Lovejoy);* a boy who becomes a man under fire (Rusty Tamblyn); a retread captain (Richard Carlson); and, for laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

"I Do Everything." Dagmar (who was born Virginia Ruth Egnor) left Huntington six years ago because she was too softhearted to keep her job in a loan office ("I hated asking all those nice people for money!"). In Manhattan, she tried modeling for a while, got a bit part in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Into his soft-lighted pawnshop with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Thus administered, the draft threw the load onto the reserves and National Guard, predominantly veterans, who had to go when their country called. The reserves couldn't fall back on the mollycoddle collection of exemptions that a softheaded Congress had written into the draft law, and that softhearted draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Vanishing Draftee | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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