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...Glenn Ford) ducks the question like a well-trained parent, but in due time he meets three women he likes: a blonde (Shirley Jones), a brunette (Dina Merrill), a redhead (Stella Stevens). He inclines to the brunette. His son says nix. "She's got skinny eyes and big busts, like the bad ladies in the comic books." Dad laughs, but later on he is forced to admit that kids actually can learn something about life from comic books. But not everything. After bringing up father, the boy develops romantic complications of his own, and he talks them over with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Male Shirley Temple? | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

WILLIAM D. Nix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Slow March. Although some old Roosevelt-era party loyalties were revived, U.S. voters put on an impressive display of ticket splitting. Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Mexico went for Kennedy but elected Republican Governors. Indiana, Nebraska and North Dakota went for Nix on but elected Democratic Governors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: How the Vote Broke | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...truly in a sorry fix 'Twixt Kennedy and Dickie Nix. So, faced by this selection shoddy, Write in your choice and vote "Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1960 | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...annoyed about last year's Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill. To soothe labor's feelings, Democrats in Congress are planning to pass a bill upping the U.S. minimum wage from $1 to $1.25, or at least $1.10. Democrat Humphrey openly calls the Landrum-Griffin Act punitive. Republican Nix on openly calls it very constructive. RELIGION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CAMPAIGN OF ISSUES In 1960 Candidates Run Against Ideas | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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