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...years ago there was a periodical issued called Time, more or less along the lines of your TIME, featuring articles and sketches that were then of current interest. I understand that copies of that old print are now very rare indeed. I have, however, looked through one, as a friend of mine who is a bookworm has a copy which he values highly. There is a sharp contrast between the TIME of today and the Time of the other days...
Critic Hume was the only one concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper...
...mobilization pinch, Symington can move in as President Truman's personal representative, twist arms and bang more heads together than could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus...
...competing with her philoprogenitive (four sons) old friend Bing Crosby? Hardly, said Mary. Even with her daughter Heller Halliday, 9, coming along, "I would run out of kids before he does...
Wealthy and devoted Mary Burrell considered Wagner's early biographers little better than "scribblers" who had merely "touched up" the great composer's autobiographical fragments. Even while Wagner was alive, she set out to track down every relative, friend and acquaintance, gather material for a biography "that would tell all." Before she was through she owned 840 items, mostly letters, and the printer's copy of the first edition of Wagner's My Life, which Wagner himself had suppressed. She made a start at writing, but died, in 1898, before she reached the point in Wagner...