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...soon would be, in Bachelor Hartack's eyes, as simple-minded a mistake as, say, getting into the "married man's position" at home. "Maybe I'll get married in a year," he says somberly, "but there are three girls I'm thinking of. I haven't met 'em yet, but it's all arranged and I'll meet 'em in the next three months. It's the same as it is with racing. No matter how good a horse you're on, you're always looking for a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bully & the Beasts | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...never did give anybody hell," said Harry S. Truman. "I just told the truth on 'em, and they thought it was hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: First Draft of History | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...tentlike version of the sack, along with the better-fitting chemise, is selling well among women below 30 and under size 14. Some stores claim that it comprises 50% of their stock. "It may look like hell on a hanger," says a Dallas retailer, "but get it on 'em and they love it because it's so comfortable!" But many shapely women shun it, say it is a fad as well as a fraud despite its "subtle sexiness." Less shapely women find they look even sadder in a sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Word Is Chemise | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...received a dollar of speedup money. Curtiss-Wright's President Roy Hurley aimed at the Pentagon budgeteers who withhold money for a program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed up Donald W. Douglas Sr., president of Douglas Aircraft Co. (Thor): "What we need most is more guts and less gobbledygook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Expert Testimony | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...glad you came," my friend of last Saturday said, pressing over to me through the crowd. "He really had them today, didn't he? That mystery of non-being always gets 'em. You see what I mean about God, now, don't you? No one thing, but the ground of it all. Sheer transcendence itself...

Author: By --john E. Mcnees, | Title: Systematic Theology | 1/17/1958 | See Source »

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