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...tightest clique is in the White House, where Press Chief Joe Short tries to maintain an air of impartiality to all newsmen. Actually, he slaps a lid on formal news announcements until he can reach Merriman Smith of the United Press, Robert Nixon of International News Service and Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press, or call in substitutes from their bureaus. But even Joe Short can't shut off leaks. Louis Johnson, an expert on leakage, admitted that he had discounted all the reports that he was being fired as Secretary of Defense until he read an exclusive story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering the Capital | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...owner-with a reasonable background of education-I have seen my first opera, my first ballet, a President, the U.N., and some of the best, tightest-packed hours of drama-all for free. Certainly there's a lot of tripe, too. So were some of the courses I took in college ... In my home, I, like anyone else, can always turn the little switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Everyone knows Chesterfields, thanks to $8,000,000 a year spent on such slogans as "They Satisfy" and "ABC-Always Buy Chesterfield." But outsiders know little about the men at Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. who make Chesterfields. In the closemouthed cigarette business, L. & M. is the tightest-lipped of all. Last week L. & M. got a new president who seemed just the right man for the job. He is Benjamin F. Few, 56, who has been vice president in charge of L. & M.'s advertising since 1934 and has managed to keep clam quiet all the time. He intends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Man of Few Words | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Spring, always as much mockery as miracle, mocked 1950's anxieties with an especially gracious approach in some of the lands where anxiety was tightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: Where Am I Now? | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Soviet Russia's hierarchy, the tightest concentration of naked power in the world, a short, fat man from the southern Ural steppes named Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov now stands just a level below the eminences where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov stand. He seems, in fact, to be pressing so hard on Comrade Number 2 that Western diplomats call him "Number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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