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...about 2%. Advertising in weeklies increased 1.2% to a record $112 million; this includes a 30% jump (to $25 million) in national ads since 1954 v. an estimated 10% gain for dailies. Said W.N.R.'s Eastern Sales Manager Robert Moore: "The weekly editor used to sit on a porch whittling a pencil. Today he's more apt to be worried the Cadillac will get scratched when it's loaded on the Queen Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Country Slickers | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...gently as a waiter balancing a tray of champagne, he raises his left hand as if he were conferring a blessing on the spectators. His blue eyes narrow, he inches his left foot back toward the center of the circle like a burglar feeling his way down off a porch roof in the dark. Suddenly he ducks low. His eyes squint almost shut, and with a furious burst of energy he scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across the circle. The shot seems to explode from his hand to the sound of a monumental grunt. Fully three-quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Governor Frank Clement and Senator Albert Gore, and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. All but Clement appeared with Stevenson on a nationally televised panel discussion of the Government's role in public health (Stevenson would increase it). Later, in an operation dubbed the "Flying Front-Porch Campaign," the five fanned out through the state in small aircraft to deliver the Democratic message in smaller California communities, while Stevenson concentrated on the larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Fury in the West | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Tonight or Never. In Chicago, police jugged Herman Nolte on his wedding night after he celebrated by firing his shotgun from his front porch, stealing the squad car when cops turned up to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Nancy and a somber Adlai Jr. ("We don't want our boys going to Korea as you did," says Dad), picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Electronic Stumping | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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