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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read about Dr. Lovshin's conclusions concerning the "pooped" mother in your April 20 issue. I have things relatively easy since I am under 30, but as the mother of a 2½-year-old, a 17-month-old and a four-month-old, and as the foster mother of two turtles, I'm certain that I do qualify for this category. I have never heard my malady described so aptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...point out a typographical error in your story on Larry Adler, quoting my explanation of how to play the harmonica? Your text read: "All you have to do is move the left framiscle on the portisduble from hardistack with the muscles, using a frammisanic embouchure . . ." This should have read "right framiscle on the portisduble from pardistack with the muscles." I hope that aspiring harmonica players have not been attempting an impossible technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...newsreel cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Old Friend | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Last week Senator Anderson, who is not even a member of the commerce committee, appeared himself as a witness for two days, read a 42-page attack accusing Strauss of 1) withholding information from the congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee when he was AEC chairman, 2) hindering U.S. nuclear-power progress, 3) practicing "deception" in the old (1954-55) row over the long-since-canceled Dixon-Yates private-power contract with AEC, and 4) creating "myths" about his achievements. When Anderson accused Strauss of "unqualified falsehoods," New Hampshire's Republican Senator Norris Cotton broke in: "That is a polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Inquisition | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams last week called a joint session of the legislature and read the riot act. "This is truly a disgraceful condition to which a great state has been reduced," cried he. "It cannot but shake the confidence of the people in the procedures of representative government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Double Poverty | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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