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From the first, Taylor wouldn't take much argument from his 650-man staff, and still doesn't. "You might as well poke a bear with a sore tooth," says one curator. From the time he walked into the museum at 9:15 a.m. until he went home at 7 p.m.. he kept an eye on everything that went on, often roaming the galleries to see what the public was looking at. He still adheres to that daily schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Custodian of the Attic | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...After the Nixon-Checkers soap opera, don't you dare poke fun at Barbara Payton again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...latest edition of the "Green Book," Washington's social register, came off the presses with some notable omissions from the listing: former Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, former Assistant Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle, and Lobbyist Charles Patrick Clark, whose crime was taking a poke in public at Columnist Drew Pearson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Democratic presidential candidate-for the first time in its 104 years-if either of the Senators was nominated. But after Stevenson was named, the Trib began to come to its senses, even though the colonel still speaks of Ike and Stevenson as "a couple of pigs in a poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Dilemma | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Gold Fever | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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