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While Reuther kept the spotlight playing on the company's profits rather than on labor's earnings, G.M.'s Vice President Harry Anderson was frequently reduced to snorting exclamations. Sample...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...Bulgaria, currently so much in the international spotlight, Russian officers, Bulgarian government officials, national party chiefs, and newspaper editors are getting their copies of TIME almost every week-flown in for special distribution by the U.S. Mission in Sofia. The demand far exceeds the supply, which is held down by lack of plane space and the bad flying conditions notorious in the Balkans...
...public eye as much as possible as the campaign spat to a close last week. But through it all, flashing the personality that has endeared him to New Yorkers even when they were weary of his clowning, fussy, dumpy, outgoing Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia never once lost the center spotlight he loves...
Gedye was back again after five years. In 1940, home-bound from Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...