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...income. If you see one of those double sawbucks, that is an orphan looking for a home, give it this address. Many that have been shunted to the mothballs haven't viewed the countenance of Andrew Jackson for such a long period that your picture of same was mistaken for that Tennessee minstrel minus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...cult of death is the other side of the cult of life, as the Hemingway people's worship of the bull ring suggests (it was perhaps no real mistake in identity when, Lael Tucker notes with pleasure, her husband once was mistaken for "Papa" Hemingway at Spain's Pamplona ring). And so a story that is often deeply moving is also overlaid with words and gestures that have the air of gruesome parody, as when Lael Tucker says to her husband in the last moments: "I love you I love you please die." Or when Wertenbaker with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Stoic | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster and the Teamsters' International President Dave Beck being under income-tax investigation at the time) and thrown them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gone with the Trash | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...public impression that the U.S. is currently dealing out massive amounts of economic aid is "quite mistaken," the Johnston group says. Most of the $3.8 billion appropriated for this year's Mutual Security Program goes for direct military aid and "defense support." Only $395 million, plus part of the $1.2 billion defense support, can be considered economic aid. A "substantial increase" is called for, says the IDAB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN AID: What About Neutrals? | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could not avoid the conclusion that the CRIMSON was, in this instance, trying to effect an early disenchantment with candidate Bunker. Perhaps I am mistaken. It may be that your reporter failed to look into the impressive record of the Colonel. For, had he done so, I am certain that the article would have been more favorably written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OVERSEERS | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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