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Richard's Almanac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...silken hair, saying it is "soft as a baby's bum." Her parents stop in from time to time to sip black velvets with their new fun-in-law. null or without company, Elizabeth tries to stay close by him 25 hours a day, filling poor Richard's almanac with some dull stretches of prose as well as short bursts of poetry. During most of the winter, he would slip out to see his family several times a week, playing

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man on the Billboard | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...spoon," Don will inform his listeners, "but marriage is what makes him fork over." McNeill himself has no monopoly on the maize. Comedian Sam Cowling (a 23-year man on the show) is the author of a regular feature called "Fact and Fiction From Sam's Almanac." Says wise old Sam: "The distance from the head of a fox to its tail is a fur piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Everybody's First Cousin | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...World Almanac lists only 43 names, not including McCormack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...Almanac does not count Speaker Theodore M. Pomeroy, who served for one day - May 3, 1869. His predecessor, Schuyler Colfax, resigned the Speakership that day in order to take the oath of office as Grant's Vice President. The House needed a Speaker for the final day of that lame-duck session and elected Pomeroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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