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...jarring note at the family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Matter of Days | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Somebody asked cob-nosed Cy Ching whether he thought selective wage controls would work. "I don't know," said Ching, the only words he uttered during the conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: he Menacing Look | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Washington showed no signs of objecting. But last week Harry Truman acted-after a fashion. He appointed cob-nosed old (74) Cyrus Ching to the high-sounding post of director of the Wage Stabilization Board, though the board did not yet exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Come & Get It | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...first man to declare himself last week for the Republican nomination for governor in the 1950 Massachusetts election was a homey, cob-nosed Yankee with a down-East twang. He had been ten years a state legislator and two years lieutenant governor. But more than his face and a good record gave him a good chance of getting the nomination. There was his name: Coolidge, Arthur W. Candidate Coolidge, white-haired and 68, is a fourth cousin of Calvin, but he is not quite so silent, and his collars are not quite so stiffly starched. Cousin Arthur promised to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: He Chooses to Run | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...content and would be a much stronger bet had not Captain Myles Huntington and Shorty Minot been named in last Saturday's 4 to 1 defeat at Yale. Huntington will play, but with a stiff charley house leg and Minot will probably is out entirely with a wrenched knee. Cob DiBlasio should see action, but he will be nursing a bruised eye suffered in the BP game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weakened Crimson Sextet Favored To Take Tigers at Arena Tonight | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

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