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...rhythm and broad Bostonian accent are good enough to fool any Jacqueline. The series of skits that comprise the record also include a wonderfully wispy, whispery impersonation of Jackie herself, played by Naomi Brossart. Most of it is not wit but gags, and the gags are not all top-drawer, though they are greeted as such by one of those irritating studio audiences ready to laugh loudly on cue. It's the Kennedy sound that saves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The First Family | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...normally spends his working day, from 10 a.m. to about 1 a.m., seated in a red leather chair behind a big desk in the party headquarters in Columbus. At night, when the office is quiet, he pulls sheaves of public opinion surveys out of a desk drawer and pores over them, calculating percentages and searching for patterns and trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Man Behind the Desk | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place. Sherman, who has been collecting stamps for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Oh Dag, Poor Dag | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...necrophilia with old cheesecake photos of her, then turned sly cameras to the inside of her coffin, the shambles of her home, the sad wealth of her sleeping-pill collection. Using a hidden camera, one photographer stole a shot of her toes as she was placed in a steel drawer at the morgue. Reporters took grave delight in noting that her temporary address was Crypt 33, where a cold description of "the fabulous figure" could be read on tags tied to her toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Thrilled with Guilt | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Aggie keeps her staff lively by occasionally firing blanks from a desk-drawer pistol, keeps the boys happy by throwing city-desk beer parties, keeps them loyal by sticking up for them. Her style has brought happy results; the Herald-Examiner is thriving, and the paper is among the Hearst chain's few solid moneymakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: And a Damn Good Cook | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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