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Sometimes the newsmaker Artzybasheff is asked to paint lends himself to fairly conventional treatment, but even then "Artzy" is likely to surprise us. (When we put "Hangman" Heydrich on our cover, for example, we planned just one noose in the background, but Artzybasheff had so much fun tying knots on paper that he kept right on until there were ropes enough for 22 executions...
...spent 14 of his 32 years in the Navy on shore-in Navy yards or at the Naval War College. His most important seagoing job had been skipper of the battleship Mississippi. He ran a clean and happy ship-with no monkey-business. He had acquired a solid engineering background and a reputation as a tactician...
...when & if the U.S. finally makes up its mind about air policy. But it was clear that Pogue, who favors plenty of competition, had Presidential approval to hand out enough franchises to assure competition on international routes. This was direct evidence that the Administration is steadily pushing into the background the so-called "chosen-instrument" policy, Juan Trippe's Pan-American program (TIME, Nov. 8). Eventually, of course, Congress, not CAB, must make the final decision on "chosen instrument" v. free-for-all competition. Pogue's action also meant that the U.S. will not lag in the coming...
...with a brilliant staff performance on army maneuvers. It was not that simple. Through the peacetime interlude Eisenhower had worked hard at home and abroad-most notably as MacArthur's technical adviser in the Philippines. He had kept his eye on his number, acquired as solid a military background as a U.S. officer could get. He had diligently cultivated his chief virtues of smartness, judgment, a concern for fine detail and a marked ability to make people work...
Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon...