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Alphonse & Gaston. In Chicago, waiting at the airport for Stevenson, Estes reached for the sky (while photographers clicked madly away) to save himself from the cap pistol of a 3½-year-old Roy Rogers. When Stevenson and Kefauver started to board their chartered plane in Chicago, their aides looked for a routine that had already become familiar. At the foot of the ramp (or when getting into a car or starting through a doorway), Estes places his big hand between Stevenson's shoulder blades, pushes gently and says, "After you, Adduhlay." Adlai places his smaller hand on Kefauver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Common Man | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...program is under the direction of Professor Harold Schmidt, assisted by Sara-Jane Smith '56, soprano; Antonio Garoputo, tenor; Polly Davis and Gaston Allaire, accompanists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Chorus Will Appear on Television | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

Accompanist for the Harvard Summer School Chorus are Pauline Davis and Gaston Allaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Plans T.V. Concert, Other Events | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

...hoping in his "state of damnation ... to reveal the truth about this desolate world." Rarer than the power to shock is Author Gascar's power to evoke disgust, which he does by combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Night of the Soul | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...Honor of Gaston Le Torch, by Jacques Perret, was one of the most charming extravaganzas of the year, a pleasant escapist whimsy about a Gallic Walter Mitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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