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...adventures excited them so that they didn't realize they were having an adventure in race relations. That night eleven-year-old Fred Buker, who is white, and his roommate, Bobby Paige, who is black, had so much to talk about that Bobby's aunt threatened to spank them both if they didn't get to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Returning the Call | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...ever in a hurry to get things done. While others fished at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., he had two days of walking, loafing, taking a not-very-frequent drink, playing poker and sleeping late (until 8 o'clock one morning). He had his picture taken while giving a playful spank to moppet Mike Moffet. Back at his desk he swiftly cleaned up the accumulation of routine. One of his first decisions: to try to add Nashville, Tenn., and its James K. Polk sesquicentennial celebration on Nov. 6 to his North Carolina-Georgia trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Push and Pull | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...this election there is no gratitude in England." In seeming to praise Churchill, the Anglophobic News had a more obvious than devious design: to iterate its moth-eaten theory that Churchill tricked the U.S. into the war. The famed Manchester Guardian saw a chance to spank the brat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guardian v. Brat | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...dither. Some were reluctant to sit in dangerous judgment on Argentina. Others welcomed the conference, now that Argentina had asked for it. Said one pro-U.S. diplomat: "We are divided. Some are cursing the Argentines' mothers, others their fathers." Said another: "This is a beautiful chance to spank the Argentines on their rear ends where they keep their brains.'' Said a third: "Now the party begins. We shall have bullfights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: We Shall Have Bullfights | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Lapful. It was thus up to the President to: 1) spank one and pat the other; 2) take the job away from both; or 3) set up a wholly new agency on top of OWI, with a new name on top, and nobody fired. This alternative seemed most likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tongue-Tied | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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