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Harry Truman had the weight of facts and logic on his side. Politicians had outdone themselves carving out weirdly shaped districts designed to increase their power at the expense of their opponents. Illinois had "saddlebag" and "beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Shoestrings & Saddlebags | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Stewardess Mary Frances Housley threw open the door. Men & women rushed for it. One woman jumped with her coat on fire, tore it off and ran from the scene. Pretty, 24-year-old "Frankie" Housley stood by the door, coolly advising her passengers to "take your time." One panic-stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Take Your Time | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Frances ("Peaches") Browning, 40, tabloid-touted child-bride of the '205, got special mention in the will of her third husband, the late Joseph Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive, who left an estate of some $50,000. Wrote Civelli in his will: "It is my specific intention . . . to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

FRANCES RUSHMORE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

When Novelist Fitzgerald died in 1941, by then one of Princeton's famous alumni (though he left for World War I before graduating), his family did not quite know what to do with all his manuscripts and papers. Eventually, the family decided to send them to the Princeton Library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '17 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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