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...Hamlett. From the moment the 37th tank battalion, which he commanded, rolled into action in Normandy in July 1944, "Abe" Abrams showed the feel and flair of a born combat man. Leading the sweep of General George Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans and we can fight by ourselves." When the 101st Airborne was surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THREE TOP SOLDIERS | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...cities with only one television station. Estimated value of the Johnson interest: $5,000,000. A 29% share of Waco's KWTX and KWTX-TV, operating in another lucralive market, plus KWTX's sizable holding in a radio station in Victoria and television stations in Bryan and Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up from Poverty | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Sounding like a bunch of cheetahs, They say funny folk songs all stink, Waving placards, "Allan Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...musically effective if a bit maudlin, dedicated All My Trials and its plea, "Hush, little baby, don't you cry," to Jacqueline Kennedy. The show crashed to a close as a huge red heart emblazoned U.S.A. LOVES L.B.J. drifted from the ceiling and the crowd chorused an Allan Sherman parody to the tune Once in Love with Amy. Sample lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Roller Coaster | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...doctors came and gave me something in the arm. I was soon under an oxygen tent. I felt rather amused that this could be happening to me." It was a week before doctors would let Ike even discuss any of the normal work of his office. Said Eisenhower: "When Sherman Adams finally came in, he had some tough ones. They kept the newspapers away from me so I couldn't see what the press was saying about my illness. Some of it was acutely embarrassing to me. But within a week I was picking up the burden, and within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grappling with Succession & Disability | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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