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...floor before the whole damn war is over?" The big question on most lips was how the cease-fire would affect rotation. Said one G.I.: "If peace comes, somebody is going to let us sit here for 18 months. That's a long time to spend on your duff in peacetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Waiting for the Whistle | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...York is a model of political precision: Governor Tom Dewey makes the decisions and keeps a man in Washington to speak for him (ex-Congressman Robert T. Ross). But few states are so well disciplined. In Pennsylvania, appointments need the approval of such feuding bosses as Senator Jim Duff, Governor John Fine, Mason Owlett and Senator Ed Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Patronage Problem | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Nights on the Train. While Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, Pennsylvania's Jim Duff, Kansas' Frank Carlson and others worked front & center, Brownell toiled behind a desk and behind the scenes, as usual. In running three campaigns for the Republican nomination and three for the election, he has never spent a night on a campaign train. Says he: "The manager . . . should be at the telephone at national headquarters, far enough away to get a bird's-eye view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cleanup Man | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...JULIET DUFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner or Pogo." Moore's formula is convincing sponsors as well as viewers: this week Masland rugs joined his six other advertisers (Kellogg, Deepfreeze, Duff's Baking Mix, Ballard & Ballard, Best Foods and Stokely-Van Camp) to give him nearly a commercially full house for his 30-minute show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Moore for Housewives | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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