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...another early peak in dashing, snuff-snuffling Gilbert Stuart. Once, when a customer complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the master snapped: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silent Witness | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...black pots of your desperation, what a witches' brew you've brewed with your story. Nobody could have supposed that the campaign of a putrid peach like Georgia's Talmadge held any interest for you halfway through the fall of '56 - his election is not even an issue. Has the prowess of the real Democrats driven you so far as to drag Mr. Stevenson through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...Carin did "all of it," last week in the 200-meter race, she joined the other girls in the coffee shop at Tyler's Blackstone Hotel. Between events, blonde, blue-eyed Carin was just another casual, crop-haired, broad-shouldered, high-school girl-as cool and pretty as peach ice cream, and bouncingly healthy. But like the others who had also set their share of records (the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann set new world marks of 1:11.8 in the 100 meter butterfly, 2:44.4 in the 200-meter butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Casual Champ | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Perhaps because he was the General Sickles who led the III Corps into an indefensible salient in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, he has never had more than a corporal's guard of biographers, unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wasn't He a Bully Boy! | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Peach, etc.) to Rio Tinto, which will merge them into a new company with Hirshhorn as board chairman and biggest stockholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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