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...circuit. That skill made Hope the perfect comedian for the new media of radio and TV, which chewed up material (and personalities) at a manic rate. We were properly awed by his motormouth profligacy. We knew he had a million jokes on an equal number of topics: Eleanor Roosevelt, Crosby's golf game, Los Angeles pedestrians, income taxes...
...detained nearby but released because of insufficient evidence.) Law-enforcement officials believe the Sierra Forest opium was meant for smoking, a habit most prevalent among Southeast Asians, who in recent years have flocked to Fresno--40 miles from the site--and to other central California communities. --By Margot Roosevelt...
...cover photo of President Franklin Roosevelt project an image that Democrats today should emulate? "With the fat-cat aura generated by his pince-nez and cigarette holder as he rode down the street in his fancy car, the rakishly grinning F.D.R. cut perhaps the least Democratic profile I've ever seen," wrote a Massachusetts reader. Others, perhaps a bit defensive about the the current slate of Democratic candidates, wanted to turn the tables. "I look forward to a future issue of TIME examining 'Why They Don't Make Republicans Like They Used To,'" wrote a New Yorker. "The cover should...
...they will fight any efforts to make them pay. "These suits are absurd and racially divisive," says Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group. "Slavery was abhorrent. But should government contractors have to go back 140 years, spending millions on research and legal fees?" --By Margot Roosevelt...
...peppy, confident that I look the part. I can do this! I’ve got spunk! Who cares that I’m not the least bit athletic—I’ll be joining scores of pom-pom wavers before me, folks like President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, all under the careful guidance of the Crimson cheer squad...