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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving Washington to convalesce at Key West from his operation for intestinal cancer, mending Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (Princeton, '08) paid off a $1 bet to State Department Counselor Douglas MacArthur II (Yale, '32). The football score on which Dulles' crystal ball was cloudy: Yale, 42, Princeton, 20 (see SPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Does TIME only bet on winners, or how come you arranged to get the man who won on your Nov. 12 cover in advance of the election results? To cover a personal bet, did TIME hedge its cover by having Ike and Adlai plates at the ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...bet that Stevenson's grinning picture now hangs next to B. & K.'s in Russian homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...bet it will be Nasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...Nixon! I have wondered low long this Democrat hogwash about the 'little man" would go unchallenged. There is no such thing as a little American. Most of us are small businessmen or wage earners. We may not have as much money as Stevenson or Harriman, but we can bet our bottom dollar that they are not planning on dividing affairs with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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