Word: wises
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Word to the Wise. One day during spring vacation, Dean Taeusch began boasting about his find to a friend in Pittsburgh. To his surprise, the friend had already heard about Robert Peters. Back in 1948, Peters had been employed as a publicity secretary in the office of Bishop Austin Pardue, but his behavior became so erratic that he had to be fired. That, however, was not all that was a bit irregular about the man. It might be wise, said the friend, for Dean Taeusch to look into the matter further...
...athletic man, Bellows chose the U.S. as his subject and never traveled outside its borders. He covered everything from the brittle polo-playing society of New Jersey to the whirling horror of a dance in a madhouse and the wise-eyed dead-end kids swarming the dirty banks of Manhattan's East River. He was one of the most imaginative artists of his time, and also one of the most versatile...
...weeks Dwight Eisenhower has been thinking that it might be wise for the Big Three to get together. Last April 15, the day before his foreign-policy speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (TIME, April 27), the President called up Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and France's Premier René Mayer to brief them on his message. During the transatlantic phone talk, there was mention of a Big Three meeting. It was all very tentative. Eisenhower felt that the timing for such a conference was not yet right...
Washington has a lot to learn from Detroit, and few men are better qualified to teach Detroit skills than Engine Charlie Wilson, one of the most successful products of the U.S. managerial class. Washington, wise in the ways of politics and the ways of representative government, also has something to teach the man from Detroit. Since Eisenhower has given Wilson full power and authority, Wilson must absorb and understand standards, and value judgments which are based on the very survival of the U.S., before he can hope to give sound direction to the U.S. defense effort. If he would learn...
When the little prince was born, in 1865, his grandmama Victoria wanted his first name to be Frederick, but she gave in to his parents' preference for George Frederick Ernest Albert. "If the dear child grows up good and wise," wrote Queen Victoria, "I shall not mind what his name...