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...Philadelphia) or for whom she would vote; in fact, she doubted that she would vote for anyone because of "my marriage to the head of a foreign state." Smiled the Prince: "She's a Monagasque." After they limousined away, the White Housers, sighing over the afternoon's dash of glamour, went back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is a tough and gallant churchman. He was a valiant center of Hungary's anti-Nazi resistance during the occupation; in 1945 he was made Bishop of Budapest. The Communists found him no easier to handle than the Nazis had; he stubbornly resisted the nationalization of church schools. In 1948 the Communists arrested him on trumped-up charges of currency-law violation and sentenced him to two years in prison. Yielding to Communist pressure, the Hungarian Lutheran Church court deposed him as bishop. After his release in 1950, he retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Return | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Brooklyn's own poetess-laureate, Pulitzer Prizewinning Marianne Moore, 68, was moved to dash off a Hometown Piece, celebrating the Dodger baseball team and urging it to repeat its last year's glory in the World Series (see SPORT). Though a pot of doggerel in comparison to Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Columbia played the Elis even for the first quarter, but eventually bowed 33 to 19. Yale piled up 299 years rushing, including a 68-yard touchdown dash by left half Al Ward. Lion Claude Benham countered with 13 pass completions in 23 attempts, good for 178 yards and two touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Ivy Hosts Beaten; Elis, Tigers Triumph | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...trip has been dogged by mishaps, bungles, delays and breakdowns, from the plane's mimeograph machine to the press bus, which left the newsmen on an Oregon roadside thumbing rides to the Portland airport. One unscheduled dash in Michigan sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Campaign Trail | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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