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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plainly, Jim Duff was not a man to run from a fight. At 65, he is a friendly, outspoken six-footer with a rugged frame and electric blue-grey eyes that make him look 20 years younger. Since he moved to the Executive Mansion, he has become a familiar sight on Harrisburg streets-window-shopping, chatting with the local newsstand dealer, gassing with the cop on the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Big Red & The Standpatters | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Rocketing Train. That night he turned on his smile for the state's Republican delegation (only one man failed to show up: he was in a hospital). He charmed everyone in sight, went off to bed early. The next morning he rocketed off to Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sunshine Campaign | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...half an hour to get her harness on. She had been fitted with modified welder's goggles (see cut). In a month Dr. Blasdel will check her eyes to see if she needs different lenses. Dr. Blasdel could do nothing for her master. Cross, now 30, lost his sight in an accident when he was 14; the optic nerve has atrophied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind Leading the Blind | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...sure of a place to sit; eager-eyed newcomers were beginning to crowd the nation's 4,200-plus brokerage offices. The public was not doing much buying yet-it was still a professional's market-but moving ticker tape was once again a sight to see, and dreams of quick killings were again dreams to dream. Wall Street was nursing a baby bull, and a lot of cow-eyed mother love was suddenly loose in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull Market | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...thrill of this first sight of Red Top still persists and is felt by everyone who has been fortunate enough to get there, including not only the crew squads but the managers and waiters, all undergraduates. There is the companionship and devotion to the cause so characteristic of crew rowing everywhere, which comes to its full strength...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Crew Takes to Red Top For Pre-Yale Tuneup | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

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