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...Frontier, he has for almost 30 years kept a discerning eye on the Government's fiscal policies-and knows a bit about such matters. His remarks reflect a general edginess about the Administration's fiscal policies. H. Ladd Plumley, new president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, last week expressed the feeling that the Kennedy Administration was really trying to get along with business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Happy Tune | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...when Bush bowed out, Alsop replied with a quip: "There are enough Alsops in Washington now." Edwin H. May Jr., 37, a wavy-haired, hardheaded politician who was state Republican chairman from 1958 until last November. A basketball captain at Wesleyan University and former president of the Connecticut Junior Chamber of Commerce, he was elected to Congress at 32, defeated two years later, and is now an insurance agent. He considers himself an "Eisenhower Republican," recalls with de light an 18-hole golf round he once played with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: How Now, Nutmeg State? | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...told him to go ahead and try. He went off and came back with a tractor." How to Succeed. Billie Sol started out in farming, and he prospered at it. By the time he was 28 he was doing so well as a cotton farmer that the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the U.S.'s ten outstanding young men of 1953. Billie Sol traveled to Seattle to receive the award at a Jaycee dinner. While in Seattle he uttered some prophetic lines: To be successful, he said, "you have to walk out on a limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Decline & Fall | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...groups have been playing for themselves for the first weeks; but the Dunster House Music Society has been formed for next year to encourage musical activities, mostly chamber music reading, and to bring other musicians to the House for concerts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bach in Dunster | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...given way to the hardtop, the circus (TIME, April 13) has undergone many a change. But nothing has changed more than its co-attraction, the sideshow. Once a traveling chamber of biological horrors, it has now been tamed into a sort of Ed Sullivan variety show with cotton candy and Cracker Jack. Rationalizing the metamorphosis is Nate Eagle, 62, the corpulent, mustachioed talker and general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. Says horn-voiced Eagle: "You don't find freaks in sideshows any more. You find strange people, odd people, unusual people-sword swallowers, tattooed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circuses: Goodbye, Tom Thumb | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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