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Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: His Majesty the Wheel | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

A born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Elephant Is Back | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Age of Jackson. The New Normalcy is not only the process of ensuring prosperity. It is learning to live with what is already here. The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill engraved with the thin-lipped countenance of Andrew Jackson, has come to be at home in everybody's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Learning to Walk a Fence | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Top to Bottom. Pallid, tight-lipped Terry Schrunk, who was elected mayor of Portland in 1956 with the Teamsters' help, came to the McClellan committee's hearing room filled with indignation. "I am Astounded and amazed," he cried, "that a committee of the U.S. Senate is being used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Teamsters Take Over | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Gabriele kept all the paintings Kandinsky had left with her, hiding them in Munich in storage during the first years of the Hitler regime when the Nazis wanted to burn them as decadent, and later building a storage room in the cellar of the Russenhaus, where the paintings remained until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Master & Mistress | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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