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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dope Sheet. In Toronto, Ont., a Telegram racing expert picked Joker's Hill to show in the featured fifth at Old Woodbine track, had some explaining to do when Joker's Hill never ran, turned out to have bowed a tendon, was shot a week before the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Stage-Struclc. In Broken Bow, Neb., while participating in an Old West celebration, Banker Thomas T. Varney Jr. fired blanks enthusiastically at fleeing make-believe robbers, discovered too late that the shells were loaded with birdshot, sent one of his victims a new hat, the other an air pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Crowds waved amiably-this time at a familiar figure-as K.'s limousine swept him back to Blair House. Within an hour he was showered and dressed for a reception at the Soviet embassy, then headed off to a private dinner with two dozen businessmen to sound the old brassy warning that U.S. willingness to disarm and trade would prove whether the U.S. wanted war or peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Education of Mr. K. | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Contrary to earlier reports, she did not marry Khrushchev in 1938, but in 1924. "You must have a bad opinion of my husband to think he would have married such an old woman." Khrushchev's first wife died "in the famine" in the early '20s, leaving him with two small children. Nina and Nikita met in the Ukraine. She was a political-science teacher, he a student of mining engineering, "but I did not teach him anything and he did not teach me." He is a "very attentive" husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Mrs. | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes. But he quickly recovered his usual aplomb. "I wish I had something to give you in return," he told his eager listeners. "You have, Adlai, you have!" shouted someone in the audience. "But please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: My Deepest Secret | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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