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...turning out low-budget potboilers. He became banker and confidant to Gloria Swanson, who named an adopted son after him. Kennedy, however, made the mistake of putting her in one of his pictures, Queen Kelly, which featured such gamy scenes as a priest administering the last rites to a madman dying in a bordello. The Kennedy-Swanson team split up in acrimony. "I questioned his judgment," Gloria Swanson told Whalen. "He did not like to be questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Driving Will | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...possible to argue intelligently, from certain assumptions about Soviet goals, that Goldwater's policy is unwise. My complaint is that most liberal columnists, and students, are not doing so. Instead, they are talking of running away to Australia if "that madman" gets elected...

Author: By David Friedman, | Title: View From the Right: Goldwater Defended | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...among the first to congratulate the artist on a magnificent portrait. Its stark drabness makes one swallow and look again; Oswald's searching eyes reveal the madman he really was. Moreover, it is interesting to speculate on the meaning of the stained wall behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 9, 1964 | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...mountains on strands of rope. And when he gets bored with such jejune pursuits, he can take up racing airplanes around 50-ft. pylons stuck in the ground - a sport so suicidal that the U.S. Government outlawed it 15 years ago. But you can't keep a madman down. Last week, with the reluctant blessing of the Federal Aviation Agency, 100 daredevils converged on a patch of desert outside Reno to resume the National Championship Air Races, delicately described by the promoter as "the biggest, safest event in U.S. aviation history." He should have added: "Since the dogfights over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying: Just a Dry Run | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...Ghastly Hues. Johnson himself conjures up Dr. Strangelove-type images of the "madman" who unleashes nuclear war. He paints a picture of any such war in ghastly hues. Said he in his Detroit Labor Day speech: "In the first nuclear exchange, 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Russians would be dead. And when it was over, our great cities would be in ashes, and our fields would be barren, and our industry would be destroyed, and our American dreams would have vanished." Last week, in Seattle, Lyndon upped his casualty figures to 300 million, not including "unborn generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fear & the Facts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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