Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chester Bowles, ex-adman, ex-governor, ex-ambassador to India, is now an ex-aspirant for re-election as governor of Connecticut. And he is somewhat surprised; a year ago, the Democratic nomination seemed to lie in the palm of Bowles's big, friendly hand...
Cuba's biggest manhunt in recent years got under way one night last week when an informer tipped off police that Aureliano Sánchez Arango, the elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group...
...iron horse-the $2.7 billion New York Central Railroad. The Central deal started with a long-distance phone call last March. Young, an ambitious dreamer who has exchanged Texas roughness for Newport's semi-suavity, had run into trouble in his campaign to win the Central. From Palm Beach, he called Murchison and said, "I need some help." Murchison called Richardson in California and said, "I need some help." Richardson took the call just as he was starting out for a round of golf. In his haste, he agreed to go along on the deal without hearing the full...
...William F. Gurney, 12, of West Palm Beach. Fla., saw a girl and boy trying to pick up some books that the girl had dropped on a railroad track. Gurney rushed onto the track, pushed the boy and girl off, then jumped clear himself-just as a train roared past...
Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made...