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Drumfire. Concentrating on Wisconsin's farmers, Humphrey kept up a steady drumfire aimed at Kennedy's early Senate record of voting against farm supports. "I didn't get this election-day religion," he told a rustic audience at the Dodgeville courthouse. "I've been fighting this farm fight since the first day I went to Congress." There was evidence that the attack was beginning to hurt. "Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On, Wisconsin | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tine of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...women were middle-aged friends who had driven to the rustic Starved Rock Lodge on the same day they disappeared. They were respected matrons in the upper-middle-class Chicago suburb of Riverside. Frances ("Frankie") Murphy, 47, wife of a vice president and general counsel of the Borg-Warner Corp., had four children, and, like her two friends, was a dedicated community leader and an active member of Riverside's Presbyterian Church. Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of a vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, had two children. Lillian Getting, 50, wife of an Illinois Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder in Starved Rock | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Poacher's Daughter (Show Corp. of America), being a rustic Irish comedy, is a pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Soviet Russia, the commuter is called a dachnik. In Chekhov's day he was strictly a summer bird, flitting back and forth to a rustic cottage in the city's fringing forests. In modern, jampacked Moscow, he is more and more a year-rounder, living in the country because he has no place else to live, and commuting, like the U.S. suburbanite (see BUSINESS), by train-the 8:02 elektrichka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Creeping Private Enterprise | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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