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...columnists swam over to Hearst's p.m. Journal-American. But there was a bit of a problem for Society Snippet Suzy (Mrs. Aileen Mehle). The J-A already had Cholly Knickerbocker, and there are just so many tales one paper can tattle. Solution: Cholly walks the plank, Suzy gets full command of the society poop deck, and this week starts a combined column under the new nom de guerre of Suzy Knickerbocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1963 | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...Next winningest: Eddie Plank (1901-17), with 325 for St. Louis and Philadelphia in the American League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Grand Old Arm | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

High Time. That seemed to be the plank that interested Peralta the most. An austere, humorless man who goes to mass regularly, he has a record unblemished by any flirtation with the left, and his open affection for the U.S. was cemented during a 1940 tour of defense pests as the guest of then Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. "That was a magnificent trip." Peralta remembers. Selecting his Cabinet last week, he stuck strictly to anti-Communists but chose a majority of civilians. Peralta's Treasury Minister announced plans to cut down on the budget deficit, fire featherbedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: The Pingpong Game Is Over | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...narrow dirt road runs near U.S. 50, close to Middleburg, Va. As it comes to a dead end, a green-painted plank gate on the left bars the entrance to a private byway named Segregation Lane, which runs along the zealously observed boundary between the hunt territories of the Piedmont Fox Hounds and the Orange County Hunt. Beyond the green gate, on Rattlesnake Mountain,* armed U.S. Secret Service agents live in green G.I. tents, keeping 24-hour guard around a still-uncompleted country home. When the home is finished, about April 1, Jack and Jackie Kennedy will move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Beyond the Green Gate | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...television season is a heartless voyage captained by fast-buccaneers. Last week, scarcely out of port, the following shows were set up on the plank and told to start walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Plank | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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