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Pete and Gladys (CBS) sets up Actor Harry Morgan, the next-door neighbor from the defunct December Bride, in a show of his own. Pete and Gladys (Cara Williams) kid around a lot and have little spats and all that, but they are really mad about each other. "It's a new house," observed one character, in this week's first installment, "but still the same old jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The New Shows | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Roots of Home | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...years it takes to turn the week's news into history. Twelve newsmaker cards, each featuring a different personality, have been inserted (one to a copy) into the 2,500,000 copies of this week's TIME. This will be repeated twelve times during the year. Your next-door neighbor may have a different card from yours, but you may get it next time. Since the odds against your collecting all twelve in your own copies of TIME are 18,614 to 1, it will be fun to know when anyone gets a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...breeds of neighboring national leaders, offer only a cool handshake to dictators but warmly embrace democratically chosen chiefs of state. When López Mateos arrived at Washington's National Airport, the President was there and, symbolic of the increasingly friendly relationship between the U.S. and its next-door southern neighbor, saluted him not only with an abrazo but a warm handshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return to the Job | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

This week Canada installs in office a new Governor General George Philias Vanier. 71, the first French Canadian to serve as head of state in the U.S.'s next-door good neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The New Viceroy | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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