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...well known that when he walks down the street, would-be artists often start dancing or singing for him. He keeps his home address in New York's Westchester County a secret for fear that "I'll have every harmonica player within 100 miles sitting on my doorstep to audition." Former contestants often write to him, saying that they have children ready for the next round of auditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: For Whom the Gong Tolls | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Landing a few steps outside his doorstep, the student was talking with a girl in a dark-haired boy stepped in front him and asked him for a cigarette. With three other boys surrounding him, undergraduate offered him one diplomatically, but had the pack snatched of his hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Stomped For His Smokes | 7/19/1966 | See Source »

...race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Painful Step Toward Solvency | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...This is no time for the press of a great nation to play Hamlet-or Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann's China-doorstep arguments about Southeast Asia today are identical with his Russia-doorstep arguments about Greece and Turkey in 1947-and I believe identically fallacious about what the United States should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Resign | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

They were clearly violating a federal regulation that prohibits camping in Washington parks. But then who would like to be remembered as the President who ordered the eviction of poor Negroes from his doorstep? Certainly not Lyndon Johnson, and Presidential Assistant Bill Moyers icily referred reporters to the Interior Department, which runs the city park system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Capital Camp | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

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