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At Chicago, Ted's powerful game was still erratic-now a siege gun, now a popgun. In the semifinals this week, he won a quick victory over Tony Trabert. But he wobbled next day in the final, and Herbie Flam took the title in straight sets, 6-1, 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready or Not? | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

The other Atomic Energy Commissioners were astonished when they heard the rumor. Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, the erratic sparkplug of last summer's investigation of AEC's "incredible mismanagement," was threatening to hold up the renomination of AEC's acting chairman, a white-shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Pike & Pique | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Republicans joyfully saw the result as a harbinger of a national conservative trend. Administration forces tried to tell themselves that the Communist issue had beaten Pepper, not the Fair Deal. On-the-scene political writers mostly believed that while the Red attack had something to do with it, what had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: First Lame Duck | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

This was a far cry from the optimism still being voiced in less-informed quarters. The truth is, when the hormone injections are stopped, the rheumatic miseries usually come back promptly in full force. Drs. Hench and Kendall saw one patient win relief for ten months and another for twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Creaking Legions | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Dixie Dew. The 81-year-old Constitution saw its greatest days in the era of Publisher Evan Howell, famed Editor Henry Woodfin Grady, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, and Frank (Mighty Lak a Rose) Stanton. Under the late Clark Howell Sr., it also fought the Ku Klux Klan and won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merging the Elephants | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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