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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent-TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Aug. 4 issue of TIME, you say, referring to Governor Stevenson: "As the first divorced presidential nominee (of a major party) in U.S. history, Stevenson will face an issue never raised before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

SUGGEST DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES ADD FATHER RAYMOND LEOPOLD BRUCKBERGER [TIME, AUG. 11] TO CAMPAIGN STAFFS AS CONSULTANT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Canterbury Tales. A versification by Nevill Coghill preserves the lusty tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th century Oxford don (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Taylor as Rebecca, Joan Fontaine as Rowena (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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