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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears stocky, pink-cheeked Giovanni Stefanoli, 57, the Pope's aiutente di camera, who has been his personal servant for years. Giovanni is the first person who sees the Pope every morning. He stands in silence by the door from the bedroom to the private chapel. No word is spoken until after Mass...
...feel that the plan is working out well, and we intend to stick with it," was the official word on the 10-percent price slash at the store. "Our customers are all pleased that we have followed President Truman's voluntary price reduction program, and the resulting increased volume of sales has more than made up for our diminished profit margin...
...effortlessness). "This kind of excellence can only be found in the seers, the saints, and the greatest artists. . . . Perhaps untrammeled is the one word which comes closest to suggesting this ultimate quality. ... If [the painter] has attained depth and breadth of character, then he is ready to aspire to that highest kind of freedom, the freedom of effortless creation...
...hysterical" in their attitude toward Russia. He would be hysterical too, he said, "if I knew only what I read in the American press. I am not accusing them of deliberately publishing untruths, but the American press does engage in selective use of the truth that is the last word in propaganda...
Richard E. Berlin,* straw boss of Hearst periodicals, passed the word, and purred that "there will be no change whatever in the magazine." But without dapper Harry Bull, 100-year-old Town & Country was bound to change. In his dozen years as editor, he had tailored it to his own well-bred tastes; the Chief (a fellow alumnus of St. Paul's and Harvard) had never so much as peeked over his shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich...