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...Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed by a Belgrade tailor who made himself a pair of scarce bedroom slippers from the rejected samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...folders in our files (there are over 300,000 in all) contain names that cannot be found in Who's Who or in any other standard reference work. TIME'S record for getting foreign names spelled right has been none too spotless, but as this tailor-made directory moves toward completion, we expect to do better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique to him ... he travels by his own tailor-made time schedule." His findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five to Ten | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Hook calls narrow departmentalization an "intellectual scandal." He would tailor college courses to the problem-beset individual of today. In the first two years, all students would take overall courses; in the final two years, study programs would be elected but "directed," as in the new plans of Harvard, Colgate, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Should be Expensive | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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