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...John Parsons O'Donnell. 65, longtime (1933-61) Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics was essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 29, 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...late '20s, his early attempt at painting was left behind, and in its place was a craft he had learned at the Renault plant during World War I: acetylene torch welding. His reconciliation with Picasso followed, and they worked together on some sculptures. Picasso's limitless horizon of idea and sense of imagery liberated Gonzalez from his lingering post-impressionist style; Gonzalez took to the air and escaped from the solid, heavy past of sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Homage to Gonzalez | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...country,, is divided by officers' cliques, formed according to military academy classes, regional derivation and family ties. The powerful South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) headed by lean, tough Colonel Kim Chong Pil, 35, who is married to General Park's niece, wields almost limitless authority, can toss almost anyone in jail for almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The New Life | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...made no difference what ailed a man, or his wife, or his horse. The nostrum peddlers had a sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patent Panaceas | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...your inane statement that the U.S. has a "queen": may I remind your obsequious reporter that the real "queens" of the U.S. are all the average gals who manage to look damned attractive without benefit of limitless funds, makeup artists, personal hairdressers, jewels, Cassini and/or Givenchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

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