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He had settled down on Prout's Neck in 1884, and he was to have his home there until his death at 74 in 1910. The place was a lonely, windswept land that Homer inadvertently helped turn into a bustling summer resort. Last week, in a special tribute to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Man & the Sea | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

The stars were fading and streaks of rose were brightening the eastern horizon as a chartered Learstar, just in from New York, taxied onto an apron at Washington's National Airport. Rumpled and heavy-lidded, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon stepped forth uncertainly, clinging to the doorframe with one hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Bold Stroke | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

More than a score of Wall Street brokers at Lehman Bros, began commuting by sea, some arriving at work in rumpled, spray-wet marine gear. They changed into business suits at the office. Dock hands at Manhattan's 23rd Street pier dusted off an old rule, hustled to collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Resourceful Commuter | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

At the University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ' times zero equals zero." Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the sentence "true" by filling in the blank. As 40 schoolteachers from as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Math Is Fun | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Liberal Democrat Clark's tongue-lashing was meant for Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, but it made a certain amount of sense to his red-eyed, rumpled colleagues, worn down by 14-hour working days as they rushed toward adjournment before the July11 Democratic Convention. The House side was equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Drive for Adjournment | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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