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Citation: "France's leading economic planner; tireless and lifelong advocate of constructive relationships of honest men and honest governments . . . citizen whose vision transcends national boundaries in the interests of all free men and all free institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...also wore out his traveling companions by giving U.S. bases the same tireless and detailed inspection he had once given his G.M. plants. Aboard the U.S.S. Midway in the Mediterranean, he led his party up & down an endless series of ladders, finally stopped to stick his head into the ship's machine shop. In an industrial machine shop, the filings always fly when the boss comes through, but on the Midway, well-disciplined sailors were standing at attention by idle machines carefully shined up for inspection. Boomed Engine Charlie: "Where are the chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...bouncy, tireless man-about-town to the end, Eddie Marsh started collecting pictures at the turn of the century, kept at it with unmatched zeal until he died. He was not a wealthy man, but his mother had left him a modest annuity and he devoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwife of the Arts | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Homeric Sweat | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...requiring Polaroid glasses). It is a black & white cops & robbers yarn about a criminal (Edmond O'Brien) who, as a result of a brain operation (prefrontal lobotomy), forgets where he has stashed away the $130,000 take from a payroll robbery. Like House of Wax, the movie seems tireless in depicting objects jumping out at the audience: surgical instruments, a car, a bird, a spider. In fact, just about everything seems to come out at the moviegoer except a good movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Illusion | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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