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...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey paused on the Senate floor last week to deliver a hearty poke at the ribs of a fellow Democratic presidential possible, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Said Hubert: "Hello, Jack. What's this I hear? Have you been cutting me up again?" Replied Kennedy with a smile: "Not me, Hubert. Why, just last night I told a group that you would make an excellent President-but you could never be elected." Grinned Hubert: "You bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Fears & Frustrations | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Elis were generally more subject to poke-checks than the Crimson, as they skated and stick-handled less forcefully. Three of four times, though, they were presented with breakaways when the defense failed on checks...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Victorious Over Yale, 2-1 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...simply made fewer errors on defense, skated faster, and showed more skill on breakaways than the Crimson. Too often the varsity defenders were content to poke check at their own blue line, often letting their man get through...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: B.C. Outclasses Crimson, Takes Third from Varsity | 2/3/1959 | See Source »

Rickover's Rakeover. With a seaman's instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polar Saga | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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