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His third shot plopped sluggishly onto the soggy 18th green of the Gettysburg Country Club, rolled to within 10 ft. of the pin, stopped. His fourth rolled smartly toward the cup, dropped with a pleasant plunk for a par. Said smiling Dwight Eisenhower, having added a polished ending to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Four Days Away | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

THE Wall Streeter whose advice is most often sought by U.S. businessmen is Sidney J. Weinberg, 67, who now has the oracle's seat once occupied by Bernard Baruch. As a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., one of The Street's top ten banking houses, Weinberg has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EVERYBODY'S BROKER SIDNEY WEINBERG | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the picture's plot (good girl helps bad guy go straight) fits the mood like a concrete overshoe, and the more than generous serving of cheesecake is pretty soggy stuff. In the fleshier episodes, Director Nicholas Ray seems to have striven to achieve a mood that is neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: A Drinking Man | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Though such a loss is discouraging, the Crimson eleven's performance, which clearly dominated the soggy gridiron, was in many respects heartening. Its defense, bulwarked by captain Bob Shaunessy. Pete Briggs, and Hal Anderson, had the Buffalo backs in awe, and with a little more speed, the attack could have...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Buffaloes Halt Crimson Attack, 6-3 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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