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When he hove into view-a gallant, smiling, if somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Editor in Charge of Finding Prognosticators was idly thumbing through his witchcraft manual last night when he heard a sudden grinding of gears behind him. He looked up; there steed a large adding machine with legs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gears Grind as 'It' Tells Score | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...months since the action described in the paper, the Carters assumed that the letters had been mistakenly stamped in Korea. Wetumka's Postmaster Bill Nicks, irate at what seemed like mishandling of the mail, fired an airmail complaint off to Oklahoma's Congressman Tom Steed. Steed checked up. He discovered that the field headquarters of young Carter's outfit had evidently been overrun by the enemy and its records scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Official Telegram | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...debate had been so heated that Congressman Tom Steed of Oklahoma finally threw up his hands in disgust. "The chairman cannot preside over a riot," said he. For 19 days behind closed doors, the House Education and Labor Committee had wrangled, but it was still getting nowhere on the Senate-approved federal aid-to-education bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Yet | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Parthenon. Most of all, he likes to browse through the Athens Archaeological Museum, where he invariably stops before a bronze statue, by an unknown Greek sculptor of the 3rd Century B.C., which seems to symbolize his own character and task. It represents a horseman leaning forward on his steed, "With Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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