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...Poor Tom?" Back in Washington, other Republican hopefuls took a long, careful look. They counted the stop-Dewey votes. Bob Taft's supporters, already stepping up their campaign, claimed at least 200; Stassenites "claimed another 185; a bobtail of favorite sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Calculated Risk | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn. Strolling amid these sights & sounds was a short chunk of a man with a square face and a wild mane, who looked like a composer. He was-he was also guest of honor at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival. His name: Arthur Honegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ham & Pineapple | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Harvard's ten-man unit commands a healthy chunk of 826 votes. Less articulate chapter representatives from the grass-roots do not seem hesitant to listen to counsel that the delegation-hep on national AVC problems and politics-is happy to dispense. Chapter chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 and delegation head Reginald Zalles 2G are lining up a busy program of committee meets for their contingent: Richard G. Axt '46, Thomas R. Brooks '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Frank L. Haley 45, Selig S. Harrison '48, Russell H. Jackson 2L, William E. Nelson 1G, and Andrew E. Rice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: These Are the Times ... | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...boss of Robbins is breezy, grey-haired Theodore Leavens, 46, who has thought up some of Robbins' best knickknacks. One item was inspired by a memory of his Montana boyhood near a mine with ore too poor to mine. Leavens put out a ring with a chunk of "real gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Frenzied Flashes | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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