Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans feel more strongly about the current campaigning in the States than those oi us who are living abroad. Why don t Adlai and Ike do some speeches outlining their respective stands, on movie or TV film, for distribution throughcut the armed forces theaters? All I've seen so far of the '56 elections was a two-minute newscast of the Republicans at the Cow Palace, and not a wink of Ike anywhere...
...clouds and swarms, the politicians, pundits and pollsters descended on the Midwest. Not since the great locust plagues of the 1870s had the farm states seen such an invasion: candidates criss crossed one another's paths, columnists probed and interviewed, and any farmer who had not been polled by the pollsters felt sadly neglected. The consensus at week's end: Adlai Stevenson has cut into Dwight Eisenhower's farm strength, but not by enough to win the national election...
Word from What Cheer. To Peoria, Ill. traveled Dwigtit Eisenhower, having already turned down all suggestions that he try to outpromise Stevenson. If Adlai's farm-rich home state was turning against Ike (who carried Illinois by 443,000 in 1952), it could not be seen in the crowds fanking Peoria's streets four and five deep. That night in Bradley University's overflowing field house (seating capacity: 8,300), Eisenhower was interrupted 31 times in 28 minutes by applause while he scorned the Democratic farm program, stood confidently...
When the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were asked if they had ever seen Person to Person (CBS), the Duchess replied that they had once watched a TV interview with the Minsky burlesque people: "If we could only come across the screen as nicely as the Minskys...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...