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...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (the only avowed candidate when the convention opened), Tennessee's Albert Gore and New York's Bob Wagner all hurled themselves bodily into the struggle, but, predictably, it was Estes Kefauver who covered the most ground, shook the most hands and drawled "bless you" to the most speakers proclaiming him "the greatest man America has ever produced." It was 4 a.m. when Estes held his last press conference, described his chances in glowing terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wide-Open Winner | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...dates and data, Researcher Cecilia Dempster, a University of Edinburgh-trained geographer who worked for the American Geographical Society before she joined TIME in 1953, crammed for three months. "My biggest problems," she said, "were to reconcile the different viewpoints of historians and to locate ancient boundaries. The Romans, bless them, very carefully recorded theirs; the Moslems didn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...broken only by the occasional stifled whimpering of the babies strapped on women's backs. On the half-hour there arose a roar: "Afrika Maribuya!" (Africa return to us!), and the women in their bright costumes began to sway to the rhythm of Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the National Congress anthem. Their protest made, the women went away as quietly as they had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Silent Cry | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there at the finish is Sorcha kissing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Invention | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...splendored things in return. Faith Healer Leroy Kopp offers "instantaneous and gradual healing" over Los Angeles' KGER. Brother Aubrey Lee asks ailing listeners to place their hands on their radio sets while he intones: "We rebuke that vile disease. Satan, take your vile disease from that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course, "a genuine autographed picture of Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Religious Hucksters | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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