Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. "Beedle," Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
Roussil, a war veteran who supports his wife and one-year-old child by working as a part-time steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week's end it looked as though the hubbub had won his Family Group a more promising home. An art dealer offered to put the statue up for sale in his gallery...
...Foujita abruptly turned his back on all that and took off for Tokyo; he was afraid the Germans would bomb Paris. When the Pacific war came he was conscripted to paint combat pictures at $33.76 a month. Among the most popular was Raid on Pearl Harbor, done from an aerial photograph. He was bombed out of his Tokyo studio; his black bangs turned to silver. At war's end he shipped a show to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947) to raise money for a trip...
...less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after the war...
...years we discussed these matters, and then, at the age of 32, my education began in earnest." The Order of Goods. The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself. Confronted by vast problems and vaster confusions which burgeoned after World War II, the U.S. lived face to face with a gnawing question: How can Western civilization, with all its mastery of production, science and the material world, keep from coming apart at the seams...