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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Langlie again as the governor was having a 7:15 a.m. breakfast in Olympia's Governor Hotel. With him Schulman had Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson, who wrote the Langlie cover story. Davidson was out to see the state for himself and meet its governor in person. "Oh, no-not again!" cried Langlie as he saw the newsmen. They stayed with him all day, winding up in the study of the governor's mansion, chuckling over album pictures of Langlie as a high-school student and baseball player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Next week ABC will launch Treasure Hunt (Fri. 9 p.m.), offering a paltry $25,000 to the person who picks the right treasure out of a muckle of 50 chests. If he misses the moneybags, he may still win title to a car, speedboat, house trailer, round-the-world cruise or a head of cabbage. Treasure Hunt will be the only show on the air that will call for old-fashioned wishbone-type luck. Says ABC President Bob Kintner: "We are more interested in giving away entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Money | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Boone, 22, was just another hillbilly singer from Nashville 18 months ago. Today, nobody who hears him in person ever hears the first or last few robust notes-they are always drowned in squeals of bobby-sox delight. Boone simply opened his mouth and sang when he was ten. "People just got to asking me to sing, and I sang," he says. Pat studied dramatics and speech at North Texas State College, finally landed a few TV spots, then got the call from Dot records. Such tunes as Two Hearts, Ain't That a Shame and, most recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Crop on Top, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...sense of their ancient glories. Still more important, perhaps, they will make tourism more rewarding for tourists-and tourists more rewarding for Israel. General Yigael Yadin, archaeologist and war hero who advises the government on historical matters, spelled it out for reporters. "Put yourself in the shoes of a person who was weaned on Bible stories. He dreams of visiting the places he has heard about since childhood. When he gets to Israel . . . nobody seems to know where they are . . . There are few people who would not want to be photographed against a signpost showing where David killed Goliath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pillar of Potash | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Thanks to an ancient and honorable law which provides that a person who has traveled or is about to travel 50 miles is entitled to a drink, whatever the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Cut-Rate Crock of Gold | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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