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...most successful literary treasure hunts of the past 25 years has been the pursuit of the scattered manuscripts and correspondence of Sam Johnson's gossipy biographer, James Boswell (TIME, March 9, 1936, et...
...past five years, the Russian veto has blocked any Security Council action not to Russia's liking. The Council's decisive action on Korea was possible only because the Russians had walked out of U.N. (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.). Last week the U.S. gave its support to an old suggestion: shift some of the responsibility for the world's peace from the veto-bound Council to the veto-free Assembly. At the same time, the U.S. made a concrete proposal for the beginnings of a standing U.N. armed force...
...packed its exhibition jury with Communists, found room for the works of 420 painters and sculptors, 80% of whom employ the flatly realistic picture-book style that Stalin knows and loves. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, which had all passed up Venice's big "Biennale" exhibition (TIME, June 26 et seq.), gladly contributed to this...
...reduced purchases of U.S. goods; 3) bigger exports to the U.S., due in part to currency devaluations that were made last year (TIME, Sept. 26, 1949 et seq.). Some nations were using part of the surplus dollars they were earning to buy gold from the U.S., thus shore up confidence in their currencies...
...years as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Bergson had filed 135 suits, including those against Aluminum Co. of America, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). He has won 80 of his cases, lost only seven. The rest, including the big ones, are still pending. But lately there have been hints that Bergson would have less & less to do. One hint: When the Government decided to build the hydrogen bomb, it handed the big job to Du Pont. Washington no longer seemed...