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Young Fry whizzed through Rochester's East High School and Hamilton College with top marks, gained a reputation as a shrewd campus politico and a smooth orator. He also spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Though Fry's religious activities at college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Lutheran | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Personal Traits. A small, darting man with jutting jaw and deep blue eyes, he guards his health (he had a three-year bout with tuberculosis as a youth) by riding horseback often, spending each weekend at the house he was born in, to which he has added a top story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAN IN THE MIDDLE | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Foss for Congress | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

So far, Jack Kennedy has gone on some of the most highly visible assets in U.S. politics. At 40, he is trim (6 ft., 160 lbs.) and boyishly handsome, with a trademark in the shock of unruly brown hair (now showing a few grey strands) that Wildroot only seems to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Hitler was also a tremendous orator with a droning voice whose hypnotic effect "has never been equaled," and Putzi Hanfstaengl dreamed of becoming the power behind the drone. With a quality of mind that Germans call dummschlau-a combination of cunning and stupidity-he thought he could use the Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Munich Confidential | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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