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...empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Reign in Maine | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...President vetoes it," said a White House staffer, "the Democrats can make a hard try at overriding his veto and setting a precedent." It was against that possibility that the President and the G.O.P. Congressmen planned last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Union--Now | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Chairman of a 50-member committee, largest in congressional history, Clarence Cannon works almost around the clock at the job -as he sees it -of saving the U.S. from bankruptcy. He darts back and forth among his 14 subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...drove to his Gettysburg farm to spend the New Year holiday: the presidential gift to 1,100 White House employes, including the crew of the Columbine III, naval personnel from Camp David, motor-pool mechanics and servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President, explained Press Secretary Hagerty, painted it from his own imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crowded Holidays | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...praise. Novelist James M. Cain, an associate on the World, said of him: "He may be thinking in terms quite divorced from what the American people are worrying about, which occasionally gives his work an extremely farfetched quality." The late Heywood Broun, a Harvard classmate and a World staffer, wrote wryly that Lippmann is "quite apt to score a field goal for Harvard and a touchdown for Yale in one and the same play." Liberal Lawyer Amos Pinchot gave him the title "Obfuscator de Luxe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Stands Apart | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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