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...Gibed the Democrats: the Republicans had finally, and posthumously, been able to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term. (The amendment would also have prevented the Republicans' Teddy Roosevelt from seeking re-election in 1912, since he had served more than three years of President McKinley's unexpired term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 22nd Amendment? | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Nina Foch, a pretty and talented repatriate from Hollywood, tries hard to carry the show through its weaker moments, and is ably abetted by wry Tom Ewell and by Loring Smith, whose Senator McKinley is rather more credible than the current vogue. But the play's high spot was the curtain call comedy, and the Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein--backers this time--won't be able to count on enough of them to make it quite worthwhile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Russel McKinley Grouse, 53, waggish perennial partner of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and Anna Erskine Crouse, 30, daughter of Novelist John Erskine: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Timothy. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Number 15 was Columbus' Neil House, called "the little Capitol of Ohio" (it's right across High Street from the real Capitol building), also crusty with political legend. Here William Henry Harrison made his headquarters in the "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign of 1840; William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: An Intelligent Deal | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...Fairbanks last week, 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, shirt-sleeved President Bunnell watched his 335 students trudge to their classes in knee-deep snow and 30-below temperatures. They were so used to the view that only a few paused to look off at 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, in the distance, copper-red in the glare of a dead-of-winter sun. Skis stuck in the snow made picket fences around the dorms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top-of-the- World University | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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