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Here it was October, with the leaves falling, and Harry Truman had not yet had his summer vacation. When he appeared for his weekly news conference, he looked a little like a man who could use one. The usually natty Mr. Truman seemed almost rumpled after a day that began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Cruising Along | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Other Fish to Fry. The usually philosophic Douglas shouted, "I object." Hot and rumpled, he paced the floor, demanded a quorum so that the question of whether his words had been objectionable could be put to a vote. Actually the matter was of little importance, but Douglas, angry at McKellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: This Side of the Grave | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

First & Third Degree. Along the wall a guard of honor was drawn up-a dozen boys and young men in rumpled Stetsons. The smallest, aged 14, whose head barely reached above my thigh, beat a drum; the tallest, who came up to my chin, proudly carried an old but carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: VILLAGE OF NO ILLUSIONS | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

A quizzical little Japanese with black-rimmed spectacles, thinning black hair and a rumpled black suit stepped off a B.O.A.C. plane in New York City last week. He was immediately swept up in a round of lunches, lectures and broadcasts that would last through December. Fortunately, he was used to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Send Us Men | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

Tulane University's Psychologist Harry ( "Uncle Harry") Miles Johnson, 65, a rumpled and violent lecturer who would roar long and loud at his own bewildering jokes ("What's the matter, sir? Don't you get the point, sir?"), hated to have women in his class ("Damn it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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