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Truman's aide Clark Clifford remembers that during a poker game with Winston Churchill, the old lion praised the U.S. but lamented one dreadful American lapse: "You people quit drinking after dinner." These days, maybe even sooner.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dead Soldiers Along the Potomac | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

"In one sense, it was exciting," he said in an interview Thursday. "In another sense, it was dreadful, because I got zero astronomy done for two years."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Astronomer Breaks Spy Ring | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

He thus becomes a receptive but essentially passive observer of a garish, deadly world, living, as he puts it, "in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids." He freely enters Mob-owned nightclubs and elegant, exclusive brothels. When no one, including reporters or federal agents, can find Schultz, Billy is allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Shadow of Dutch Schultz | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

For now, Michael Jeffrey Jordan is high enough, thank you. As he enters his fifth year in the National Basketball Association, he is the hottest player in America's hottest sport. Only 25, Jordan has already won every major individual award the NBA has to offer. He was Rookie of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leapin' Lizards! Michael Jordan Can't Actually Fly | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

The story at the core was the stuff of everyday American violence. A killer and a city street and a wild ride to an emergency room and a young body too broken to repair. But it was Camelot and this was John Kennedy, and television now rushed in to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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