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When President Eisenhower announced his decision to run again, the Republican elephant on which he will ride was well-fed, laden with campaign fodder, and already lumbering off on a well-plotted course toward the campaign of 1956. Around Republican National Committee headquarters in the Cafritz Building, just three blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Len Hall's unwavering conviction enabled him to keep the Republican elephant moving forward at a time when most Republicans were sucking their thumbs. Before the President had made up his own mind, Hall decided that he just had to run again if it was humanly possible, because there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

She swings as soon as she sees the White Hunter she calls Bill Buncher: "A powerful red-faced man with very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Safari Debunked | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Dumbo, the flying elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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