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...Director Howard A. Rusk, "especially in the last ten days. He is getting a lot of words out." To show how well he was recuperating from his Dec. 19 stroke in Palm Beach, the senior Kennedy took several steps for his son Jack, who was in Manhattan for a Madison Square Garden rally celebrating his 45th birthday. But mostly he just sat with his son in a garden and chatted. Said Joe Kennedy: "I'd rather talk than walk." Struck for 2½ days by 700 waiters, cooks, bellhops and elevator operators, Manhattan's gilded Waldorf-Astoria bravely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1962 | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...permission to sell stock to the public. The pioneer was not one of Madison Avenue's Goliaths but Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., a fast-rising newcomer that in four years of existence has boosted its annual billings from $69,000 to $5,900,000 on accounts ranging from Exquisite Form bras to Wolfschmidt vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Marketing Madison Avenue | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...saving grace of uniformly bad productions, is now assured a bright new popularity. He has had offers to do his first nightclub performance in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove with Eddie Fisher later this month, and with White House approval, he will appear alongside some towering stars at a Madison Square Garden Democratic rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The Making of a President | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...number can play-and do. A recent novel speaks of drinkingness (more pleasurable than drunkenness). One Texas preacher is currently using everything from thereness and scatteredness to gatheredness-which suggests that he owes a debt to togetherness, used in the 1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal's Cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Nesselrode to Ruin | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...even if they represent less profit. Noting that during rush hours, bicycles and roller skates are faster than taxis on the Chicago streets, Heineman looked about for some way to speed the final lap of the journey for the commuters his trains had delivered to North Western's Madison Street station. Said he: "We discovered one completely unused 'expressway' right in the heart of the city. It is wider than most Loop streets; it is the one remaining traffic artery in downtown Chicago that is completely free of people, vehicles, stop lights and 'No Left Turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Getting There Is Half the Fun | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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