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...farmers and townsmen of Ottawa County streamed out of the fairgrounds at Marne, Mich, one day last fortnight, they came upon a handsome, square-shouldered man wearing a big, green, polka dot bow tie and a wide, bright, boyish grin. He stood astride the main exit, reaching out to shake hands with all who would come within his grasp. The smile and the green bow tie identified him as Gerhard Mennen Williams, governer of Michigan. "Look," murmured one woman to another as they pressed by, "he's getting grey hair already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Prodigy's Progress | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Jungle's Choice. He was a chief of the Gonds, a tribe living in the dense jungles of the former princely state of Bastar, in central India. Among his own people, Kesa was a great man, a mighty hunter with bow & arrow, the husband of 14 dutiful wives. For years, Kesa had run the affairs of his tribe under the benevolent rule of his master, the Maharaja of Bastar. But then, in 1950, democracy came to the jungle. The new constitution abolished the rule of the maharajas and elections were to be held to send representatives to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Captive Candidate | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Died. Lamar Trotti, 51, Oscar-winning screen writer (Wilson) and producer (The Ox-Bow Incident, Cheaper by the Dozen); of a heart attack; in Oceanside, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Lure of the Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought he was on the blacked-out Wasp's right bow when actually he was on her left bow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Riddle of the Hobson | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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