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...West Point, gazing out on an ice-choked Hudson River and the snow-covered hills. Outside his third-floor "presidential" suite, an MP stood guard. Downstairs in the basement grill, several hundred college girls and their cadet dates devoured cheeseburgers and malted milks while a juke box thumped out Goodnight, Irene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Man with the Answers | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Last week, to the amplified tune of Goodnight, Irene, the blue station wagon blared its way around Chicago's South and Southwest Sides. At the giant Crane Co., Douglas shook hands with a group of independent union workers picketing the plant. He ate lunch with the firemen of Hook & Ladder Truck 41, to whom he admitted that he was feeling pretty stiff and sore. He had slipped and fallen that morning taking his bath. Spike pleaded with him to lie down and rest. The Senator napped for two ho.urs at the firehouse. Then he was off again with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Sound Effects. In Perth Amboy, N.J., police raced to an apartment house to find out why half a dozen tenants' doorbells were all ringing at once, found a young man kissing his girl friend goodnight as she leaned against the bell buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Boyd's week begins calmly enough on Thursday and moves like a rising pressure gauge through a welter of pictures, photostats, magazine dummies, make-up forms and teletypesetter copy to a climax around 3 a.m. on Tuesday when he gets the final "We are ready to say goodnight" from the printing plants. By that time all of the editors' picture and production requirements have been settled to the best of Boyd's and his assistants' ability. They have probably combed the country to find the one right picture to illustrate some special story. They may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Hilaire Belloc, according to unverifiable but attractive sources, once rose before a banquet audience after a long wait and said: "I have been asked to give my address. It is King's Land, Shipley. I should have been there an hour ago, and I am going there immediately. Goodnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: And Now Our Honored Guest | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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