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...felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Zest for Life | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Damnedest Jam. At each of the 92 vaccination centers, Boy Scouts put the sugar cubes into paper cups. Pharmacists doused the sugar with three drops of vaccine. As the vaccine ran low, ambulances (many donated by undertakers) with sirens screaming struggled through clogged streets to deliver fresh supplies. Said one cop: "It is the damnedest traffic jam I've ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wiping Out Polio | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...South Carolina's non-TV teachers are "doing their damnedest to make sure TV doesn't replace them," says one official. "What they didn't know before TV arrived, they find out in a hurry." Most of them accept the efficacy of TV teaching. The screen rivets students, encourages them to take notes, and makes them worry if they miss a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salvation by Television | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...eleven months in office, Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has not proved himself the best, the worst, or even the most indifferent, member of the Kennedy Cabinet. But he is surely the damnedest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Get Off | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...Medical Center in Dallas for extensive medical tests. Surgical examination showed cancer of the lymphatic system-inoperable, incurable and spreading through his body. When he recovered consciousness, Mister Sam asked his doctors for the truth and got it. "This," Rayburn told a great-nephew, Robert Bartley Jr., "is the damnedest thing that ever got ahold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Laid to Rest | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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