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For evidence, we need only point to the cities like Boston, where there are many Catholic voters present, voters particularly sensitive to this issue. Boston, while supporting local aspirants Dever and Kennedy handsomely, helped sound the death-knell of Stevenson's candidacy. In Chicago, too, the local Democratic office-seeker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whose Victory? | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

With their two pieces of earth-moving equipment, a foundation gang last week pushed a rough track (see map) through the jungle at the rate of half a mile a day. The foundation's goal is a road running 1,100 miles across the Amazonian basin to Manaus, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Winning of the West | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Your March 31 article, "The Minnesota Explosion," is a fine piece of journalism and indeed very gratifying to read. So some of the Minnesotans can't spell Eisenhower correctly? Well, the Parisians don't pronounce it comme il faut. To them, he is "General Eek" and their leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Quitting Rice Institute to turn pro in 1941, Jack was soon converted into a U.S. Marine judo instructor, spent four years at U.S. camps dreaming of green fairways. In 1948, back to golf, he became head pro at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, N.Y. Jack Burke can teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Where Father Left Off | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

In 1905, he arrived at Fort Worth, a bustling metropolis of 30,000, prosperous with new meat-packing plants and railroad connections, and began his long, happy love affair with the city. He opened a small office, rented a typewriter for 50? a month to give the place an air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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