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...tells Betsy that he is going to try for a public-relations job with United Broadcasting Corp. As he hurdles tricky interviews in the company's Rockefeller Center headquarters, Tom feels that even the brass-colored elevators carry the intriguing musk of big money. The scent is headiest around U.B.C.'s self-effacing but all-powerful $200,000-a-year president, Ralph Hopkins. It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slipped Disk | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires, with its docile press, rumors are often the apėritifs and canapės that come before a feast of news. Last week Argentines were enjoying the headiest, spiciest assortment of rumors since last April, when President Juan Perón survived a crisis of bomb-throwing by his enemies. The choicest tidbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Things They Say | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...political sphere, an article on "One World Illusion" is representative of the Newest Freeman's attitude. Here one Fred De Armond acidly debunks all the hopes for a better world, that were held in this country during the war. De Armond scoffs at Wendell Wilkie's One World ("the headiest conception since Galileo's), the "strange freedoms" of the Atlantic Charter, and even UN plans for international standards of diet...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Newest Freeman | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

...Orleans, Rice, considered the best in the Southwest Conference, faced Louisiana State University, rated the pick of the Southeastern Conference. L.S.U. won, 21 to 14. The margin of difference was principally L.S.U.'s Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., one of the nimblest and headiest T-formation quarterbacks in the business. Elsewhere in the South, two perennial powerhouses-Tennessee (to Georgia Tech, 27-0) and Alabama (to Tulane, 21-20)-lost their first games of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kickoff | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...Littles lived near Manhattan's Central Park, where sailboat enthusiasts like to sail their miniature craft. In one of the headiest competitions since the America's Cup races, Stuart sailed the Wasp to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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