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Asked by Washington newsmen whether he would run for the Senate next year, Cleveland's ex-Mayor Thomas Burke, newly appointed successor to the late Senator Robert Taft, replied: "Well, I've only been down here half a day, and I kinda like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...change his grip on the "change-up" pitch, i.e., his slow ball, and to abandon his sidearm delivery for an overhand motion. Says Trucks: "I never thought I'd be learning a new pitch in my sixteenth year in baseball, but it's a good one. Kinda like a screwball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pitcher at the Well | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...This is a small town, mister," said the telephone operator in a voice of protest. "This ain't Detroit, you know, and we're all kinda upset ..." But last week Clayton knew in its heart what it had long denied: it harbored poverty, fear, meanness, and the base passions, too. Clayton would not be the same for a long, long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: The Truth about Clayton | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...course two years ago and set up housekeeping in a pink stucco, remodeled caddy house just off the practice putting green. Babe takes her housewifely chores as seriously as her golf. She designed the modern, push-button kitchen which, like the dining room is painted a violent yellow. "Kinda loud," Babe admits offhandedly, "but you get used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...District, walked the streets of London with tireless energy. Outside Buckingham Palace, they stood with cameras at the ready, as if waiting for the Queen to wave to them from the windows. They toured the Tower, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ("Is this really the coronation throne? Kinda beat up, isn't it?"), carefully watched out for cars on the "wrong side" of the street, crowded into Dirty Dick's Fleet Street pub and the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames. Wherever Americans went sightseeing, they saw that reassuring sight-other Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Invasion, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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