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...written by George Church, edited by Marshall Loeb and re-searched by Eileen Shields and Claire Barnett in his native Australia until 1939, when he joined the Australian News and Information Bureau in New York. His 15 years at TIME were interrupted only by a four-year freelance writing stint. To his friends he was a rare, complex, rewarding and endearing man. His death is a keen loss to his colleagues, to TIME and to its readers...
...story was written by Lance Morrow, edited by Jason McManus and researched by Marion Knox. Lance has been involved with the flag, government and politics since a stint as a Senate page gave him his first closeup look at congressional figures, including Senators
Shady Ladies. Still, he put in a stint as a cub reporter on his father's San Diego Tribune, first took up painting while reading Ulysses "as an exercise for my perception." He decided to open a gallery in Beverly Hills devoted to the then avant-garde Surrealists, but the venture fell through when he made no sale for six months. "Since I guaranteed the artists that I'd sell 10% of their works, I almost had to start a collection," he says. He took off for Paris, where the artists whose works he had bought-Max Ernst...
Marketing Knowledge. King was born in the small town of Wheaton, Ill. Attacks of asthma and recurring pneumonia eventually forced him to drop out of college, but did not slow King's drive. A brief stint as an office boy for Harold Stassen brought an interest in politics, and King quickly became national chairman of the Young Republicans college clubs. At 23, he was elected to the Illinois house of representatives; he served three terms. A small investment led him into oil development. Meanwhile, King married Carylyn Becker, whose father was chief executive of Franklin Life Insurance...
Kranz, a crew-cut and clip-voiced former test pilot, was just winding up his ten-hour stint with his "white team" of flight controllers when the first hint of trouble came from 205,000 miles away in space. Quickly responding, he made the first of the long night's many important decisions, ordering the astronauts to turn off a fuel cell, check their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation...