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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interviewer Charles Collingwood came up and saw Mae in her Hollywood apartment? One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom. "They're for personal observation," said Mae, deadpan. "I always like to know how I'm doing." Sensing that the going was getting a bit hot, Collingwood suggested that they switch the subject to foreign affairs. Said Mae: "I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Back home in Michigan, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield put a cancellation stamp on rumors that he might run for office next year. "Look, I'm now 60!" cried he. "I've worked hard since I was 13 years old with hardly anything resembling a vacation. If I ran for anything, my wife would crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand by saying: "I'm absolutely sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...feeling much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finger Exercise | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...m doing Fingerhackln For the courage that it takes, For the knuckles that it breaks, For the pleasure that it makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finger Exercise | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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