Word: joes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped bring White House and congressional Republicans closer together than at any other time during the Eisenhower Administration. As never before. Congressmen are informed about Administration aims, and the President gets an accurate and detailed picture of congressional sentiment. Under Halleck's predecessor. Massachusetts' doughty old (74) Joe Martin, and the Senate's obstructionist G.O.P. Leader William Knowland, it hardly seemed possible for Ike to keep his congressional fences in good or der. This year, with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate, the Republicans in the White House and on Capitol...
...told pretty much the same story. Each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from points as far distant as Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...
...Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen's under-the-mattress pea with...
...Died. Joe Cook, 69, zany vaudevillian who juggled six Indian clubs, devised complicated Seltzer-squirting, walnut-cracking machines, brought the house down by telling why he would not imitate four Ha| waiian ukulele players; in Clinton...
...greatest wildcatter of all, Mike Ben-edum (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), and his partner Joe Trees in 1904 found an arrow carved in a rock in West Virginia, heard a tale that it pointed to treasure buried by pirates years before, sighted along it and drilled a 3,000-bbl.-a-day producer. In the same state, hearing of a blind farmer's vision of oil spouting over his maple tree, they drilled on the spot, found a 300-bbl.-a-day well. In Illinois, following the directions of a blind judge who had developed his own theory...