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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Republican state chairmen from 19 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states. The subject under discussion: how to increase the Republican majority in Congress. The breakfast-eaters started from the proposition that the key man in the Republican campaign of 1954 is Dwight Eisenhower. Said Ohio's able Chairman Ray Bliss: "The big problem in our areas is to make certain the people realize how important it is to have a working majority in Congress to support him." Said President Eisenhower: "They are here to assure me they are working for a Congress to support me ... That means a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Fight for the House | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...against a background of Broadway, a fashion show and an intimate nightclub. Betty got excellent support from a pair of cowpokes (Josh Wheeler and Guy Raymond), from Kevin McCarthy as the hero, and from a new French singer, Genevieve. The music, written especially for TV by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Buttons and Bows), was astonishingly good. Both Satins and Spurs and You're So Right for Me may be sounding from radio and jukeboxes for some time to come. Betty Button's most infectious number was a novelty called Wildcat Smathers that featured a rodeo dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...bedroom-and-bath skit that has already been seen on CBS-TV in last year's Meet Mr. McNutley. Starring William Bishop and Michael O'Shea as a pair of Korean war buddies who have moved to Los Angeles for jobs, the show is produced by writers Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat at the Hal Roach studio. Bishop plays the handsome leading man, and O'Shea is cast as the dumb, good-natured, wolf-calling sidekick that Hollywood has decreed as standard equipment for every U.S. soldier-hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Dial M for Murder. Ray Milland tries to murder Grace Kelly, but Director Alfred Hitchcock contrives his comeuppance (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Short Snorter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Ray Du Val, flustered at arriving late to defend his beer-drinking title, downed a gallon instead of the required half-gallon, still beat his nearest rival by ten seconds, explained his tardiness: "I was at the bar down the street having a beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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