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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor, whether the convention endorsed him or not. Casting around for another fresh senatorial candidate (the term most used was "sacrificial lamb"), the Republicans roped in a Boston attorney named Vincent J. Celeste, 34, who ran once for city council, once for state representative, once for Congress (against Jack Kennedy in 1950) -and lost all three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamb Stew? | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...This is going to be wild," smirked Jack Paar before she floated into his Show one day last week, her pink-tipped fingers hiding "my cleavage" from the camera's peeping eye. For the next 85 minutes, Zsa Zsa ("Call me by my first Ja") Gabor turned prophecy into reality. Her seemingly artless and endless prattle displaced planned interviews and sketches (wailed Paar: "At what point tonight did I lose control of this show?"), frustrated the pawky comic, "Charlie Weaver" (Cliff Arquette), by seizing on his every lead-in joke line and running off with it. In fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Prattling Pompadour | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Jack Isidor Straus, chairman, R. H. Macy&Co.,Inc D.C.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...anything!" The audience was delighted. "Just what I expected," bubbled Paar after the show. "She asked me what to do. I said, 'Be yourself.' " He invited Zsa Zsa back for a return match and said, when she came back two days later: "My name is Jack Paar. I'm the announcer on the Zsa Zsa Gabor show." Paar was a gallant loser. Closing out their first show, he explained: "When I saw her on a little local show in California ... I wanted her right away." Unwilling to let a man have the last word, Zsa Zsa interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Prattling Pompadour | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Automation. In Lincoln, Neb., Jack Coffman was treated at a hospital for injuries received from a power lawnmower, went home, turned up at another hospital later in the day with more injuries from the same machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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