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...added with a grin, "I don't pretend to be either illiterate or poor. I've had a lot of jobs that sound folky--but I was just a kid on vacation. I drove a truck for a while, until somebody discovered that I didn't have a license. Once I picked apples for five cents a bushel and all I could eat; I was only five at the time and didn't know any better. I reached the heights though, the summer I worked as a packager in a supermarket, a loyal member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers...

Author: By Patricia W. Mccullough, | Title: Unfolksy Tom Rush Sings The City Blues | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

First, the President urged those in the back of the room to speak up if they could not hear. But when a woman correspondent complained, "Sir, we don't hear a word," the President bawled back jocularly, "Good!" Later, with a grin, he admonished the newsmen: "Now won't you all quit writing these stories-'Won't anybody say no to L.B.J.' Because I have more people running around here saying no." The President read prepared statements for nearly half an hour, then set a 20-minute limit on the question-and-answer period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: I Need to Talk | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...eyes that saw, the lips that kissed are gone-Or black as thunder lie and grin at the murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The E in Edith | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...President of the United States. Celebrating the anniversary of that day this year at his annual birthday luncheon in Kansas City, Mo., Harry smilingly accepted a million-dollar pledge for the Truman Library Institute, where scholars study the history he made. But what really turned on his grin was a visit to Hello, Dolly! the night before. Stepping in front of the curtain, Leading Lady Mary Martin, 51, called out a special "Hello, Harry!" and got the whole audience to join her in singing "Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...happy-go-lucky affair. Choreographer Onna White stages one rousing cakewalk number, with the chorus rhythmically seesawing its arms, that bears a remarkable resemblance to the title dance of Hello, Dolly! Imported Star Tommy Steele is a kind of cockney Bobby Morse. He has a boyishly infectious half-moon grin, and his ingratiating style is to woo an audience rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Threepenny Operetta | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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