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...scattering of celebrities, such as New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, Banker David Rockefeller, Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Beatrice Lillie, and Playbore John Jacob Astor. But in general the crowd was so mousy that one society columnist was reduced to noting that ''one of the smartest dresses was a long wool plaid with jacket, on a nameless lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: She Ain't What She Used To Be | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Once, when Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson came to call upon him at the White House, President Harry Truman offered him some advice: "I see that Styles Bridges is senior Republican on your committee. That's good. Bridges is a smart man, the smartest in the Senate. He'll let you call the game. He'll let you deal the cards on the table or under the table, and either way he'll probably beat you. But you let him know what you're doing, how you're dealing the cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Innermost Member | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...spring, as usual, probably yielded the smartest, highest-scoring, best-endowed, most highly-scrubbed class ever, and the admissions problem was not as severe as it might have been. But difficulties remain to be solved in several areas. It is unlikely that applications next year will increase by 1,000, the way they did in 1960; but if they do, the present system may collapse. The only immediate solution for this eventuality is to hope that it doesn't happen. But two other problems deserve attention: the lingering emphasis on athletics and the dangers of the alumni-interview system...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Admissions Office Faces Dilemmas; Continuing Search for Excellence Clashes With Concern for Feelings | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

...sure that Mr. Dillon [May 19], being "the smartest boy in the class," did not tell you that his excellent wine from Chateau Haut-Brion was from the Medoc. This would be equivalent to claiming that oranges from Florida produced pure California fruit juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 9, 1961 | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...Dillon appeared without a retinue of aides or a suitcase crammed with documents. But his meticulous, detailed answers-the product of countless hours of cramming-left the Senators awed, and apparently willing to give Dillon at least half of his request. Dillon, explains a friend, delights "in being the smartest boy in the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Quiet Banker | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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