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...well as such aging Roosevelt aides as former Attorney General Francis Biddle and F.D.R.'s personal secretary, Grace Tully. Carefully characterizing himself "not as a judge of painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting that Shoumatoff's likeness of his political idol was "a portrait I like." Commissioned by the White House Historical Association, it will displace a painting of George Washington in the presidential office, and will hang there, Johnson said reverently, "as long as I am President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Back at Stage Center | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...against nature. The idea of God as a transcendental presence implies to Dewart that God is to be envisioned as a reality found in and through nature, as the shaping force of history. And in so far as the word "God" has become a symbol of an outdated supernatural idol, Dewart proposes that the church might well resign itself to silence as to the name of the reality-beyond-being it serves and preaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: God as Non-Being | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. The idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Rick Nelson and Joanie Sommers play it "On the Flip Side," an offbeat musical about an aging teen-age idol whose singing career gets an unexpected boost from a truly heaven-sent vocal group called The Celestials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. The idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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