Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artists are seldom modest folk. They have enough troubles without trying to bridle the human vanity that, likely as not, feeds their art. But 47-year-old Painter Isabel Bishop is an exception to the rule. "Sometimes I think I've got nerve," she cries, waving her long bony hands in the air, "to paint...
...bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings, his students never regretted the hours they spent under the peppery little man who insisted that they look beyond their case books and think for themselves...
...like to think of banking," said Bank President Tony Burton in John P. Marquand's Point of No Return, "as . . . the most basically human business that there is in the world." Last week, Tony Burton got some backhanded support for his assertion from the FBI's Inspector Lee R. Pennington, who investigates bank frauds. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Washington, Pennington said that most of last year's frauds (total lost: $3,000,000) were traceable to some fairly common human failings: gambling, drink, women. High living, big debts...
Pennington did not think bankers had done all they could to forestall thefts; in many cases, he said, even a cursory check would have shown that the employees involved had been living far beyond their means. The FBIman suggested that bankers make a practice of giving their bookkeepers and tellers their vacations "during the period when statements are forwarded or passbooks balanced"-and check...
Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...