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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal employee, but the charges against him were dropped.) The testimony, as printed in the Sun-Times, showing that from gambling the candidate had become the "richest cop in the world," led to his defeat. The candidate: Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, onetime Chicago police captain, who had been the state's chief investigator in the Touhy case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nose for News | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...STATE OF BUSINESS Previewing 1960 How will business be in 1960? From gatherings of economists and businessmen last week came a remarkably unanimous answer: more boom. Some specifics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Previewing 1960 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...came on a hunter's nightmare. On the rough hummock, Harry W. Anderson, 67, retired vice president of General Motors, lay dying, a gaping wound in the back of his head. Over his body crouched Harlow Curtice, 66, onetime General Motors president (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), in a state of trembling shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hunters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...waterfowl biologist for the Michigan State Department of Conservation thought he knew: "Elderly hunters are affected seriously by low temperatures. Anderson stood up for a better crack at a flock of ducks, and his legs were undoubtedly numbed and out of control. In balmy October weather, there would have been no accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hunters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...been more than a year since that modern American morality play, The Ugly American, hit the scene with its less than surprising revelations about State Department boobery abroad. Whatever its literary drawbacks--and they were great--the book did arouse public interest in an important field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diplomatic Dilettantism | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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