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...comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach ulcer from each of three studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south for a series of stomach-ulcer operations, he was ordered to Formosa to prepare for the Nationalist retreat, and arrived in the midst of much highhanded Nationalist treatment of the local population. Formosans remember him as their best Chinese governor, a man who "made no promises, did not brag and was very strict." When Chiang made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Right-Hand Man | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Noisy Incentive. Many firms have gone a step farther, enlisted salesmen's families in ulcer-building campaigns to spur the breadwinner on. MacDonald regularly sends cards to the home showing the salesman's standing in a current company contest, gives wives tags to hang on furniture around the house to remind their husbands of the furnishings they can earn. Some firms have even sent buzzers and shrill whistles to a salesman's children; when dad asks what the noise is all about, the kids are instructed to tell him it's only a reminder to straighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING & SELLING: Spur for the Front Lines | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Johnson, Baron Webb-Johnson, 77, onetime (1941-49) president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated for a perforated ulcer, but was unable to save the patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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