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The Veep came out looking old and tired and sat down to the most strained press conference in his political history. Two stenographers kept careful record as he explained that Flo Bratten was "an accommodating, good-natured, bighearted woman." Would she keep her job? Said Barkley, woodenly: "I am not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Influential Twosome | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

From Liverpool, Winnie popped down to Woodford, his constituency in Essex. Sporting a square bowler and an eight-inch cigar, he drove through roars of "Good Old Winnie," halting at street corners to scribble autographs, pat children's heads and deride the Socialists' "ill-natured criticism of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whose Finger on the Trigger? | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Since the early days, much of Durante's humor has been based on a good-natured release of destructive urges. Once, looking for a strong finish for a musical-comedy skit about bike marathons, Jimmy threw his bike into the orchestra pit-and had to promise in writing not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Pedasill | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Here Kohn developed his interest in teaching and scholarship as there was so much time for "sitting and reading." But he had a good chance to watch the coming of the revolution, as the prison camps were "not so strict." "You could go into the local town, and the people...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Faculty Profile | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

"Go! Go! Go!" By 7 o'clock the mob was back and pressing against police lines, which blocked off the area around the apartment house for a full block. Mostly, they were young fellows in T-shirts and dungarees, but there were also housewives in cotton dresses, a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Ugly Nights in Cicero | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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