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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his father was still in Congress, Billy lived part-time in Washington, became a familiar sight in the Capitol corridors. He was a political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dynasty & Destiny | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...counting such surefire box-office hits as Around the World in 80 Days, The Ten Commandments, Giant and Oklahoma! because they were released so late in the year, there were 109 U.S. films that grossed $1,000,000 or more domestically in 1956, according to Variety. The top five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: $1,000,000 Box Office | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Box Score FG FT TPMuncaster 3 0 6Schreiber 1 0 2Danner 8 3 19Woolston 4 4 12Canty 2 6 10Hastings 1 0 2Barnett 3 2 8Hurley...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Danner, Harrington Lead Varsity To 76-60 Victory Over Tech Five | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

...best" actors of 1956 were not mentioned in the Motion Picture Herald's poll to determine the year's biggest box-office draws. Herald's top-ten ratings, including only two actresses and reflecting the opinions of some 16,000 theater owners in the U.S. and Canada: 1) William Holden, 2) John Wayne, 3) James Stewart, 4) Burt Lancaster, 5) Glenn Ford, 6) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 7) Gary Cooper, 8) Marilyn Monroe, 9) Kim Novak, 10) Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Critics' Choices | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Eden parried and dodged, then said flatly, thumping the dispatch box angrily: "To say that Her Majesty's government was engaged in some dishonorable activity is completely untrue, and I must emphatically deny it." Liberal Leader Joseph Grimond, still not satisfied, demanded to know whether the government could categorically deny that it had had information that Israel was going to attack Egypt. The House rang with cries of "Answer, answer." Finally Eden got to his feet. "There was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt-there was not," he insisted. "But there was something else. There was-we knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fox & Hounds | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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