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Just as Ohio's Republican Senatorial Candidate George Bender puckered his lips to begin a curbside television interview in Cleveland, a passerby jeered at him, a Bender admirer took strenuous offense, and in an instant the cameras were staring wide-eyed at the best TV fight in a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Before the Vote | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

The Territory of Alaska this year was probably the only place on earth where a platform orator could get a laugh with the well-worn opening: "Ladies and Gentlemen.'' On Alaska's election day last week, this local joke proved to be on the Republican Party, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Alaskan Tea Party | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Corn from Clem. At the big banquet, in the hot, stuffy Shriners' Murat Temple, Adlai Stevenson, the principal speaker, sweated like a Fourth of July orator. His speech somehow missed the mark with the 1,000 Democratic diners, although Adlai had tried to cut it to their measure. "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Tom-Toms & Cornballs | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

To a White House luncheon Ike called Case, Vice President Richard Nixon, National Chairman Leonard Hall, top New Jersey politicians and, most important, Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, an oldfashioned, free-style orator and chairman of the G.O.P. senatorial campaign committee. After lunch, McCarthy-Backer Dirksen, who is beginning to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Aid | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

The Old Man's a genius-none would dispute- Though at times he's a bit of a tartar. . . As an orator,author, he's second to none,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Always the Bridesmaid | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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