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...grandson of Samuel Bowles, famed independent editor of the Springfield Republican, Bowles came out of The Choate School and Yale with a liberal outlook that satisfies New Dealers and labor. His years as board chairman of Manhattan's plushy ad firm of Benton & Bowles Inc. make him equally acceptable to most businessmen. When he took over OPA in 1943, OPA seemed ready either to 1) fall apart, or 2) be torn apart by baffled housewives, angry businessmen and the Congress. Optimists gave Bowles six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Matter of Approach | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Last week, Philadelphia gallery-goers found the ranks of the Academy's 140th annual show suitably stiffened with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia Goes Modern | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Through its loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed to Fort Benton, Mont., 3,575 miles from salt water. (Round trip fare between St. Louis and Fort Benton was $300; the menu included smoked buffalo tongue, bear and elk; profits were as high as $40,000 a single voyage; the captains got $1,200 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...which will have sold over 60,000 copies in 1944 alone, although it was first published 21 years ago. He points out as remarkable, and rightly so, total printings of 30,000 copies for Russell Daven port's My Country. I wonder if he has heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately 22,000. Then don't you think TIME might have mentioned Rikky Harrison's Look at the World, which also went places as an atlas but was much more greatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Negro, Henry Clay Warmoth was born of American pioneer stock of Dutch extraction. In fact there has never been a Negro Governor in the U.S. Closest was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, who served as Acting Governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 until Jan. 13, 1873, while Governor Warmoth was unable to perform the duties of his office because he was the subject of impeachment proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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