Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, produce from its editors a champion to dispute publicly and in person the proposition that effective opposition to the Red Chinese requires disengagement from our warm embrace with the defeated, discredited Chinese Nationalists...
...very practical person," says her father, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., "but at the same time, she manages to get enjoyment out of everything she does." In India last week, Barbara was doing just that. She went for a bumpy ride on an elephant with her husband ("Johnny kept rocking the box"), shopped for souvenirs for her children, picked up a few saris for herself ("I love them, but someone will have to show me how to wear them"), visited a village and Red Cross headquarters, chatted with India's leading lady political and social workers at a reception...
...wealthy ranching family. It was an alliance that seemed eccentric even for Hollywood. Martin was studying law when he met Anne (after five failures at the bar exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother in person; the newlyweds moved into separate apartments, which they occupied for six months. Her husband always slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow. It made her nervous, she admits, but years later she told Playwright Bill Gibson: "I thought all husbands had guns under their pillows...
...gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...
Both Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, were among the 16 persons who chose Adlai Stevenson as the ideal President. It was the largest backing for one person...