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...according to Morris, and once referred to the lionized George Bernard Shaw as "a blue-rumped ape." Sir Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research on Roosevelt shows that deep down few adversaries could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Art of Poitical Insult | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Dairy Farmer Clair Hoover, whose pastures are barely five miles from the nuke, has reported 19 dead cows in the past six weeks. Although a simple infection may be responsible, as it often is during calving season, Hoover admits: "I can't help but have my thoughts." William Peffer of nearby Newberrytown, who had evacuated his family to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., says that his wife still wakes in a cold sweat at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Questioning All | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...lighter Crimson wrestlers punished their Eli opponents unmercifully. Andy Kopecki, a hyperquick sophomore, beat Bob Peffer of Yale 11-4 at 123, and Howie Henjyoji eradicated John Maguire 13-0 at 130. Captain Tom Gilmore finished his Harvard career with a 6-2 win over Bob Ellis at 137, and Phil Emmi cleaned out the Elis' Bob Malovany...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Crimson Wrestlers Top Yale Easily But Elis' Heavyweight Upsets Chace | 3/7/1966 | See Source »

...last dual meet for Harvard, Captain Ben Brooks, wrestling at 191 pounds, clinched the match by pinning Randy Fleming at 8:54. Crimson sophomore Howie Henjoyji, who had suffered through a succession of tough opponents all season, redcemed himself by pinning Bob Peffer of Yale at 8:28 of their 123-pound match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Take Big-3 Title By Topping Yale, 19-12 | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

Died. Nathaniel Peffer, 74, longtime (1938-58) Columbia University professor and author of many books on the Far East (China: The Collapse of a Civilization), a onetime Shanghai correspondent who by early 1948 concluded that the Chinese Communists were genuine Marxists and not merely "agrarian reformers," warned that only active U.S. intervention could save the Kuomintang, but still held out hope that the Chinese Reds would in the long run refuse to be merely "a tail to the Russian kite"; of a heart attack; in White Plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 24, 1964 | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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