Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...nightmarish character. For one thing, many people look at him suspiciously when he announces that he is a TIME correspondent named Jones. For another, everywhere he goes he learns that Senhor White has been there before him. At a cocktail party, one indignant lady told him: "This is not meant to be personal, but for us in Rio TIME without Whites is no longer TIME...
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
...mean that Pinchot owned you for life," he said. As Fine recalls it: "We both had a tear and I left." Pinchot won with a slim majority of 21,000. Fine's own Luzerne County gave him a majority of 26,500. In a way, this meant that Fine had elected Pinchot virtually singlehanded. Says Fine: "If Pinchot had won by 50,000, Brown and I could have healed the breach. As it was, we never could. I did not sleep for two nights after the returns were...
After being lionized as the old darling of the Cannes film festival, veteran (68) Slapstick Producer Mack Sennett returned to Hollywood with a bit of advice for Americans going to France: "Don't be surprised by anything." To show what he meant, Sennett recalled a Maurice Chevalier show in Paris where the chorus girls bounced around naked from the waist up. Said Sennett primly: "I had to clean my glasses three times to make sure...