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...signed his mail. The Senate restaurant was kept open; the jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: How to Float a Loan | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Ballet | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they are also Dakotan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...during each monthly cycle. So, ordinarily only one ovum can be fertilized. Ovaries may or may not alternate in ovulation. Occasionally two ova are expelled at the same time or very close together and, if both are fertilized, twins result. According to this possibility, four years ago a South Dakotan claimed that he was father of only one of his wife's twins, and a judge agreed with him. Said Dr. Bundesen last week: "Since the twins are unlike and one is smaller than the other, there is a possibility that they may have two fathers. But the fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed for any honest and constructive purpose." Nevertheless, the same public that had watched this North Dakotan "smear" the President's enemies now had a glimpse at the way a President's son may plan to make some quick money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Son's Scheme | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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