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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highly competitive magazine business, where one false step can be fatal, it was a brilliant transformation. Three men had sweated it out. One was Editor Ted Patrick, the dapper, greying adman who had dropped everything at Curtis' unborn, LIFElike "Magazine X" to go to Holiday's rescue (TIME, July 8). One was British-born Art Editor James Yates, who had gone to "X" after restyling the Satevepost during the war. The third was wise and wiry Ik (pronounced Ike) Shuman, who left a top job at the New Yorker four years ago to work first as "magazine consultant...
...Gramatikakis Panayotis, a Spartan lawyer, told how a band of extreme right-wing X-ites* broke into his house last May. "We were dining at about 11 at night, when five or six men came into the house. They killed my brother, who was a royalist though I am a leftist, broke my sister's arm, my mother's arm, wounded me in the leg, wounded another sister in the cheek. Now we live with relatives, six in one room...
...Rightist hatchetmen whom their pro-German leader, Colonel Georges Grivas, designated with the algebraic symbol "x" (for reasons known only to himself...
...main purpose. But some genuine exploring was done. The Navy's Antarctic expedition was primarily interested in 1) bolstering U.S. Antarctic claims and 2) training Navy personnel for Arctic operations. Notable findings: great, mountain-bordered bays never mapped before (see map); a newly discovered peak, Mt. X-Ray (15,000 ft.); plenty of bare rock, of interest to mineral hunters...
...pound weight throw (NEAA Uchampionship event)--Won by Bennett (Brown); second J. Fisher (H); third, Miller, (R:I); fourth, X. A. Felton (H). Distance--52 feet, 3 3/4 inches...