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McInnis, who is in his second year at the University, looked back on his stint with the Philadelphia Athletics as a member of their famed $100,000 infield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stuffy McInnis Talks About Old Times, His Days With Champ A's | 3/2/1950 | See Source »

Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vigorous Sort | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...good man on the ground, Johnson soon joined Humphries in a management team. After a stint in P.A.T. (eventually absorbed into United Airlines), they worked in the construction supply business before tackling their biggest job in 1941. In that year they were hired by Edward H. Heller, New-Dealing California businessman and later a member of the Surplus Property Board, to pull his Pacific Intermountain Express, a West-Coast-to-Chicago truckline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRUCKING: A Piece for P.I.E. | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Respect. The professional sheen is applied by a cherubic-looking producer named Worthington Miner, 49, who came to television ten years ago with a directorial credit list of Broadway hits (Five Star Final, Reunion in Vienna, On Your Toes). Borrowing liberally from stage & screen (he also did a stint with RKO in Hollywood), "Tony" Miner has pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...niece's maid, Parnell Thomas' aunt and daughters-in-law, were on the Congressman's payroll, drew about $20,000 in salaries and never did any work. One, a clerk-typist on the payroll of the House Un-American Activities Committee, did put in a short stint-addressing Thomas' Christmas cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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