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...television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Indiana: Codgerism | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...year ago. Says Bayh: "I feel the average voter is impressed by a fellow who's out there just working his tail off." Homer Capehart. who just happened to be a responsible, hard-working Senator, would have expressed the same sentiment-but in the words of an old codger. And that was the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Indiana: Codgerism | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Eighth Stratford Summer Season Opens With Adept Production Of "Richard II" | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...better than hack historicals, he dusted off some old documents, ran down some dubious legends and wrote a book about a fascinating 18th century eccentric, Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass. Marquand was never satisfied with the effort. Now, 35 years later, Timothy Dexter Revisited gives a curious old codger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Clown | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

Interviewed in Florida, Singer Pat Boone, sometime lay Church of Christ preacher, allowed that show business is a fine calling for an old (24) codger like himself, but "I wouldn't recommend it for young people-especially girls. If they have a very special talent, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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