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...Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would be "much more fittingly inscribed on the wall of a men's room." Bill Knowland flushed red and scowled furiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Splendid Job | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...take all the dossiers out of the drawer," said Mendès. He began that afternoon with hope. He spoke of a Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hard Bargainer | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

There are very nice songs like There's a Small Hotel, but Rodgers gave the show a ballet rather than top-drawer show music, and Hart gave it lyrics that tend to shout their cleverness. It is the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott libretto, however, that lays a curse upon the evening-the look, if ever there was one, of three men on an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Gunsmoke (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). A top-drawer western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...quite top-drawer but a fair enough account of a girl whose personality is split four ways (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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