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...right hand. With his left hand, he triumphantly held aloft a canvas bag containing the election ballots as the delegates sang a chorus of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). The scene recalled an even more exuberant celebration three days earlier. In honor of Walesa's 38th birthday, a group of scouts had treated him to songs and flowers, and supporters had tossed the stocky union chief into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Walesa Gets Tossed | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

When he was the nation's 38th President, Gerald Rudolph Ford acquired an unwanted, and perhaps undeserved, reputation for stumbling, bumbling and bumping his head upon leaving presidential aircraft. So it was entirely fitting that, stepping off Air Force One to greet Ford in his home town of Grand Rapids, the 40th President collided with the 38th and almost stumbled down the top step. Once on the right foot, the ceremonial opening of the Ford museum last week was a fitting tribute to the man who helped rescue the honor of the American presidency from the ignominy of Watergate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grand Hail to an Ex-Chief | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter, the 38th man in this procession, went somberly and with weighted shoulders before the television cameras (nudging out M*A*S*H) to spend an hour attempting to untangle himself and his Administration from the clumsy conniving of his brother Billy for Libyan oil and a vision of millions in commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk with Joseph Lash | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Tears and MacArthichokes | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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