Word: feb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time there was a little sign on the door of a small Columbia University office which read: "Professor Jessup on leave until Feb. 1." Someone thoughtfully crossed out "until Feb. 1" when gangling, affable Philip Caryl Jessup, having used up his year's leave as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations, went off to Washington to become Secretary of State Dean Acheson's top negotiator, with the title of ambassador at large...
...vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished from the dock above. Koerner's oil was as stark as a tabloid photo, and more disturbing. Was the Girl a successful channel swimmer, or an unsuccessful suicide? The painting offered no clue...
Convicting ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was a speedy matter-it took a federal jury less than two hours to find him guilty of taking bribes from wartime Munitions Makers Henry & Murray Garsson and conspiring to defraud the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947 et seq.). But getting Handy Andy to serve his prison sentence of eight months to two years was not so easy...
...their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...
...Feb. 25 Pitt (postal...