Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus did Ernest Hamlin Baker hurry to deliver his first TIME cover portrait: Poland's Statesman-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939). Artist Baker, who had done some previous work for FORTUNE, had been given just 48 hours to turn in the rush assignment. He made the deadline, and has been doing TIME covers ever since. So far, he has done an impressive total of 347 portraits for TIME. Since so many of you have written to tell me how much you liked Baker's portraits, I asked him to tell us something about himself...
...Russia's recent small concessions to the Austrians, has reportedly planned a trip to Moscow in hopes of "buying" a removal of Soviet occupation forces from the country. According to British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, reporting last week from Vienna to London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded out Russia via New Delhi, to inquire whether the Russians would be prepared to sign the Austrian peace treaty "if Austria pledged itself to complete neutrality." The reply, through India's Nehru: "Neutrality not sufficient. Molotov...
...Associated Colleges at Claremont, he still lives on the common campus, still receives a steady stream of callers, still chugs about in his 1934 Plymouth to offer advice to all who seek it. "After all these years," says one Claremont official, "Dr. Blaisdell is still the elder statesman of our world here...
Died. Hjalmar Hammarskjold, 91, statesman-father of the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; in Stockholm. As Sweden's Premier during World War I, he shaped his country's traditional neutrality policy, and later, as chairman of the multimillion-dollar foundation (1929-47), annually presided over the awarding of Nobel Prizes...
...small to the big (e.g., the luxuriousness of American spittoons proves the wastefulness of the U.S. economy) and a limited awareness of U.S. social customs which need be no more recent than the novels of Theodore Dreiser. A typewriter and a subscription to Britain's anti-American New Statesman and Nation help...