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...like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton's wife Mary puffed plump cigars, promised to come back and finish the smoke???"regardless of how green I turn"?if they improved their 1962 vote totals. (They didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: A Party for All | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...ships of the U. S. Navy, steaming at 20 miles per hour. Of a sudden, the fleet buried itself under a mountain of smoke and fire, black and yellow with a glean of crimson. For six minutes?it seemed six hours? tons of steel hurtled through the black smoke???some of it went in long low curves ten miles toward "the enemy ships," some went in steep parabolas toward the enemy aircraft. When all was calm, it was apparent that the enemy ships were well smashed. But the airplanes? According to Lieutenant Commander James H. Strong, 44 anti-aircraft guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Unseemly Spectacle | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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