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...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hi-Fi Fan from Texas | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Regulator Substance. Last week's announcement was made by Andrew C. Ivy, M.D., Ph.D., head of the department of clinical science at the University of Illinois and a top-rank physiologist. Dr. Ivy introduced the discoverer of Krebiozen, Dr. Stevan Durovic, a hawk-faced, 45-year-old Yugoslav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earthquake in Chicago | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Dick Button is favored to retain his North American title this weekend when 30 top-rank figure skaters from Canada and the United States compete in Calgary, Alberta, in the men's and women's divisions. Button has won the world championship for four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Button Defends Title | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...prison Rhee got the treatment considered fitting for top-rank political offenders. He was subjected to daily torture -finger mashing, beating with three-cornered rods, burning of oil paper around the arms. He wore a 20-lb. weight around his neck, was kept handcuffed and locked in stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father of His Country? | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Wald and Krasna were already bubbling with plans and projects. With Hughes's approval, they were going to start a profit-sharing system for top-rank stars, writers and producers, boasted that they would assemble "under one roof, the smartest people since the Greeks." They planned to hire a corps of the nation's top newsmen to scour the world for original story material. Their films would cover the whole scale from social drama (Country Club, a study of Midwest manners & morals) to ribald comedy (Mother Knows Best, a collection of "clean-dirty stories" with Mae West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Deal | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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