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...Jacqueline Kennedy and Daughter Caroline, with the late President's sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith and her two young sons, made a tour of eleven fun spots, lunched at the members-only Terrace Club, where the children begged in vain for hot dogs or hamburgers, settled for roast beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Into Stride | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...message was hard to find, as messages often are in that uncompromising typographical thicket, the London Times. But when Conservative Party leaders found it, their faces turned the angry red of rare roast beef. "There come moments in the life of every party when it needs to wash off the last application of humbug and start fresh," said the Times. "Such a moment has come for the Conservative Party." For three straight days, the Times continued to dwell on Tory sins and shortcomings. It was a cruel birching from any quarter. What hurt most was that this one came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The New Thunderer | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a knavish TV writer-producer - not without times E.D.T. charm - Robert Preston uses the backfire from his faulty schemes to set bonfires under the next person he wants to roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a knavish TV writer-producer-not without charm-Robert Preston uses the backfire from his faulty schemes to set bonfires under the next person he wants to roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater, Records, Books, Best Sellers: TELEVISION | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...sonorities of the Book of Common Prayer or the incantatory praises to life of the Song of Solomon, which delights equally in woman and God. The grace-before-meat he says in his own house is likely to pay a tribute in doubtful Latin to the quality of the roast. Like a missionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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