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Rockefeller retaliated with a public relations machine slicker than a well made cue-ball. What other candidate offers reporters wine as they skip from town to town in plush bus or plusher plane? The refrain is "This is Leadership. Let's Keep...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: New York's Three-Way Race For Governor: Vote Hinges on Rockefeller's Unpopularity | 11/8/1966 | See Source »

Mama began taking Pat to church when he was six weeks old, later gave him a daily cross: milking the family cow. At first, chasing Rosemary across plusher neighbors' lawns was an excruciating embarrassment. But Pat soon learned "that people were not as interested in what I had or what I wore as in what I was . . . It healed me of a lot of insecurity to find out that if my cow gave people a laugh, I was doing them a favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Teen Commandments | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Harry Hoxsey set up a cancer clinic in a small building in Dallas and got a naturopath's license. Despite several lawsuits, he was soon doing well enough to move to plusher quarters. He hired two assistants (neither of them M.D.s), within ten years boosted his annual net income to $100,000. On the side he plunged into oil and real estate, bought a 588-acre ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Humiliation | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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