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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ascetic in Reverse. He had been one of the world's best talkers, in all the major tongues of the West. Whistler's butterfly with the scorpion tail perfectly described Berenson's conversation: light, colorful, quick, acid. His books (Italian Painters of the Renaissance, Rumor and Reflection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Autumn Leaf | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

"People Paid Attention."The Huntley-Brinkley combination is the product of pure chance. In 1956, planning coverage of the national party conventions, NBC decided to send in some fresh faces, dispatched Huntley from New York and Brinkley from Washington, expecting them to spell each other. They made it a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Evening Duet | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Not until they go on the air does either know what the other will say; their story assignments must be written-and in some cases reported and filmed-in the hours just before show time. The news budget is restricted to five or six items, and which man takes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Evening Duet | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

On the News-Sentinel, Whitehead will produce three columns a week on anything that comes to mind, while continuing to work on his next book. This week his first column began: "A wise man once said that home is where the heart is, and that's what I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Home to the Hills | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

The fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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