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...overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Rule of Chaos | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither, a children's morality opera for grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...irrefragably feminine" mistress, TV Star Flaire Daire. It is a "big 1960" idea: voters love babies. After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 1960 Campaign | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy of the Congressional Record for a seat, and improvised snow flurries from a binful of visiting cards left by guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Called Him Pa | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit Louis. Kaiser Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Philadelphia Princess | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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