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...Egghead Vote. At first, crowds were small, far smaller than Eisenhower's, far smaller than Harry Truman drew in 1948. In his first attempt as a whistle-stopper he was a flop. He got better, by dint of practice, but his best performances were in set speeches, to big audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whose Adlai? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Lawrenceville | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poor White's Art | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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