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...former Governor (1947-50) Earle Clements, 59, a shrewd, tough Democrat who has kept his fences well mended during his six years in the Senate. Even so, Clements was leaving nothing to chance. He campaigned 18 hours a day last week, allowed himself only two daily luxuries: a hot bath in the afternoon, a quart of ice cream at night (he shuns bourbon when on campaign duty). Clements' campaign technique: magnolias and corn ("Now I understand why Kentucky is known far and wide for its lovely, gracious ladies. I hope you will not think me forward for speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Jumbo Prize | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

According to the PBH Housing Directory supplied by Mrs. Sylvia Clark, one room apartments with kitchenette and bath run as high as $80.00 monthly: walk-ups without private bath go for $75.00; and for less than that, most apartments offered are cold water flats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Rates Rise Higher With Rent Board Removed | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

Despite Dio & Co.'s arrest, there are nagging loose ends: Was the acid bath to silence Riesel, as the Government insisted, or to even a grudge? If the columnist had to be silenced, why wasn't he murdered? And why should Dio, whose name had not appeared in a Riesel column since 1953, be anxious to attack him? Biggest question of all: Did the chain of command really stop at Johnny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Team Behind Telvi | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...records, which only say that Richard was a small, sickly infant, eleventh child of "quiet, solid" Richard, Duke of York. He was still a negligible, unnoticed boy when his big, handsome brother chopped his way to the throne as Edward IV. Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter. He was then nine. Next year he became Admiral of England. Ireland and Aquitaine. When he was 16, he wrote a letter asking a friend to lend him 100 pounds. That is substantially all that the records have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

What Women Want. What did his loathsome patients expect of him? Dr. Stein points to the young knight's experiences in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Psychology of Witches | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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