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Interestingly enough, General Canham, jumping in this year's Texas maneuvers with the 82nd Airborne, was called "The Jumping Grandpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Grandma didn't say, but Grandpa liked it fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...some suburban developer comes along, cutting down the trees, bulldozing the site and befouling our habitat." A purist with a sad, cold eye, Gropius believes that the main reason for the architectural ugliness he finds everywhere is "inertia of the heart. Man still clings to some visible reminder of Grandpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Retrospect in Boston | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Wichita Falls (Texas) High School stands for another hundred years it will probably never experience anything quite as sensational as the arrival last month of a new boy named Alexander Garza. Garza hit school the way the twister hit grandpa's barn. His appearance alone was enough to turn heads: he was a slim, tough-looking youth who sported a mustache, long sideburns and a goatee, wore blue jeans, a maroon jacket and a snap brim hat, and simultaneously smoked a cigar and chewed bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Teacher's Nightmare | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...radio serial based on the PulitzerPrizewinning (1936) comedy by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The opening show clung tenaciously to the original playscript in putting the zany Sycamore family through its paces: Penny, writing plays in the parlor; Paul, detonating explosives in the basement; Grandpa, exhibiting snakes in the living room. Cinemactor Walter Brennan plays the philosophizing Grandpa Vanderhof, and is described with deadly accuracy as "a wonderful, scheming, lovable old pixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Advice to Advertisers | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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