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Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the President: "Oh, fiddlesticks. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk & Action | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Some 50 guests, including Fala,* crowded into the little red-carpeted, basement Oval Room where Franklin Roosevelt has made many a radio fireside chat during the past eleven years. At 10 p.m. the announcers made their introductions, and nodded at Candidate Roosevelt. The President, apparently chipper despite his continuing head cold, then began his second political speech of the 1944 campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Change of Pace | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

Major General Claire Chennault, easing along a Chinese dance floor, ranked no higher than any man with a captivating partner, when a chipper, dare-devil-named corporal Christopher Colombo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Family Troubles. Editor and author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twain at His Worst | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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