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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: The All - American All - American | 7/19/1965 | See Source »

HALF A SIXPENCE is a pleasant showcase for Tommy Steele, an ingratiating pre-Beatle Beatle. Bright tunes and dances seem brighter when brushed with the Steele charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...realists, notably Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Moses Soyer, who were not interested in membership in the Maidstone Club or in its challenging 18-hole golf course. East Hampton has also been invaded by a sizable force of well-heeled industrialists, merchant princes and young executives, who want a pleasant place for their families to spend the hot summer months, and who couldn't care less about social climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Splendors at Home | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

HALF A SIXPENCE is a pleasant showcase for Tommy Steele, an ingratiating pre-Beatle Beatle. Bright tunes and dances seem brighter when brushed with the Steele charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jun. 25, 1965 | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...dropped from a high of 450,000 in 1947 to 70,000 last year. Hachette, the powerful publishing house that owns both newspapers, was distressed over a loss of $800,000 in 1964 by Paris-Presse alone. Moreover, the Paris-Presse payroll was padded with all sorts of pleasant cousins and friends who never did a lick of work. At the news that a lot of these ardent Gaullists would come over to their paper, twelve top France-Soir staffers resigned in a huff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: French Fusion | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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