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...News' journalistic pillars as reporter, anchor and commentator; of stomach cancer; in Princeton, New Jersey. During a wide-ranging career, Chancellor covered the 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas, school-integration crisis, served as Moscow correspondent and interviewed every U.S. President since Harry Truman. He also served briefly as Lyndon Johnson's Voice of America director. One memorable report occurred at the 1964 g.o.p. Convention: when forcibly hustled out for blocking an aisle, he signed off, "This is John Chancellor, somewhere in custody...
...after Harvard, she joined the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and buttonholed its Secretary in the halls to ask ingratiating questions about Washington. Next she set her sights on consumer advocacy, lobbying James Goddard, head of HEW's Food and Drug Administration, to put her on President Lyndon Johnson's Committee on Consumer Affairs. In that role, she helped the committee's chairwoman, consumer advocate Betty Furness, write new laws demanding truth in packaging...
When a racehorse appeared, Carter got the owner to sign. When TIME ran a photo of a basset hound, Carter went to a kennel and took a paw print. In 1958, when seven Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, turned up on the cover together, Carter got to all of them. Harry Truman signed three times, giving Carter good-humored hell for having built his collection on "such a prejudiced, pragmatic and purblind publication as TIME...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "There are very few surprises in Washington," says TIME's Laurence Barrett of Dole's announcement. "This was a genuine surprise. This is as big as Lyndon Johnson's decision to pull out of the race in 1968." Those who know Dole and know how closely his identity is tied to his political career also know how difficult and wrenching was his decision to wager all on his third attempt to win the presidency. "This must have been an agonizing decision," says Barrett. "But he was finally forced to do something dramatic to save his floundering campaign." Barrett...
Obituaries of Travers--who died last week at 96, and whose real name was Helen Lyndon Goff--invariably (though respectfully) depicted her as a curmudgeonly grouch with a tendency to be "fierce" and "short" with her interlocutors, a woman who didn't "suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They all recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn...