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Flickering Eyelash. Virginia's three Republican Representatives, Richard Poff, William Wampler and Joel Broyhill, all have done well enough in Congress and are good campaigners. Yet any of them, or all three of them, might lose just because they are Republicans and Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Fights in the Front Lines | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

When the witnesses were finished, so was Serag el Din. "Show your mercy toward the homeland by proving cruel to him," demanded the prosecutor in his summation. At week's end Serag el Din stood up and did not flick an eyelash as the court pronounced its verdict: 15 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Boss Goes to Jail | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Born 48 years ago in Charleston, W. Va., where his father was a coal-mining engineer. Stockly's first bid for fame was on the baseball diamond. Because he was so small, he was a pitcher's despair. A local sportswriter dubbed him "Fly's Eyelash Stockly." However, in time he grew and now stands (unslouched) a respectable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...comedy, To Be Continued, William Marchant has treated the moral structure of Western society in about as casual a manner as anybody in a pretty casual century. Without batting an eyelash he sets the scene in the Greenwich Village pied-a-terre of a New York jeweler, weaves the action from the point of view of that gentleman's mistress, and as I understand it, blandly assumes throughout that there is no problem of social morality in the relationship...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: To Be Continued | 4/11/1952 | See Source »

...past years, CRIMSON business representatives have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of freshman radiators without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, there is a chance for freshmen, sophomore, and junior latent extroverts to develop under personal tutelage of the fastest talking gray flannels in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening at 7-30 tonight offers everyone a gift for gab which can come in handy along other than journalistic lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Comp Opens for All Tonight | 11/28/1951 | See Source »

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