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What with hushing up the scandal, and the phony baby ploy, Blade finds that Adams is gaining ground. Still he needles his staff with the first law of gimmickry: "There ain't any highbrow in lowbrows, but there's some lowbrow in everybody." Where is the golden kazoo† that will pied-pipe the voters into the Adams camp? Before Election Day rolls around, Blade finds the kazoo and a tune to tootle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 1960 Campaign | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Ploy's the Thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Rachel Adams (see cut), a woman to keep her own counsel, has already moved on to another ploy in the intra-family gamesmanship: Can her husband tell the difference between Vermont and New Hampshire maple syrup? Tentative decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...nation's highest-piled governor (6 ft. 8 in.), Alabama's James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, autocratically took off to qualify also as the highest-flying. His recent ploy, now under investigation by the Air Force: commandeering Alabama's National Guard airplanes to haul Kissin' Jim and his cronies to one of this fall's football games. On New Year's Eve, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute team will take on Vanderbilt University in the "Gator" Bowl game at Jacksonville, Fla. Kissin' Jim plans to be there, free-loaded, with room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Where to go and what to do is simple. You show her an amazingly good time on the first date, unless you're me, in which case you don't spend a red cent because you don't haveit to spare. The flat-broke ploy is good because she'll know then that your daddy isn't sending you through, and you're either a self-made man or a scholarship boy--attractive in either case...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Sex and Society: Coming of Age at Harvard | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

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