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...gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would try for the governorship, not only because Ellender would be a hard political nut to crack but also because Earl Long drubbed the mayor badly in the 1956 race for governor. To proud and progress-conscious Chep Morrison, the defeat still rankles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: King of the Crescent City | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...year passed before such palaces as the new Havana Riviera and Capri hotels could be built and before the mob could raise the "nut"-the bankroll behind the chips. But by last month ten Havana casinos were going, most of them profitable from the first roll. Running the Sans Souci casino was a Lansky hood, Santo Trafficante Jr.; at several others Lansky was the boss or named the boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Game of Casino | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...college senior, I find the situation alarming. There is mass apathy, nothing creates an impression, no one cares about anything but themselves. One must conform to these apathetic tendencies and others or else be labeled a nut, a "turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Miss America" doll from his daughter Patricia for Mohammed's daughter Amina). Nixon stopped briefly at the White House, then went home. Pat Nixon had roasted the 9-lb. turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful Be Kind." After dinner, Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: In a Position to Help | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Some. A nut once asked me to do his sandals and wouldn't pay 'cause I got black on his stocking. He had a beard like Lincoln. One guy always makes me polish the tip of his shoe laces." That exhausted his list of Unique Persons. "Do you like to shine shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Sidewalk | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

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