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...there are times when Aaron manages to find and convey the dramatic moments. The reporter describing New York's death by the black gas, James Stinson, has the reserve of an announcer and the sensitivity to horror of the actor. Colgate Salsbury brings a depth and a strength, mingled with pomposity, to the Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Pell does a praiseworthy, although not convincing job as the Princeton professor who watches the Martians with a philosophical eye from the first flourish to the last wriggle...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: War of the Worlds | 10/30/1956 | See Source »

Teetering on the Border. With the regularity of the rollers on nearby Stinson Beach, good news came pouring in to Stevenson that day. In the District of Columbia primary he had clobbered Estes Kefauver by a two-to-one margin and won all six convention votes. In the Alabama primary he had won at least 20 of the 52 half-vote delegates (with 20 others uncommitted and the rest facing runoffs), and thus indicated that he can hold his own in the Deep South. In the Florida panhandle, Campaigner Kefauver, acting as though his shoes were really pinching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Swingin1 on the polden Gate | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Henry L. Stinson wrote: "No private program and no public policy, in any section of our national life, can now escape from the compelling fact that if it is not framed with reference to the world, it is framed with perfect ability." This view-point has not been confined to the Atlantic Seaboard and Mr. Stinson, or to such headline names as Paul Hoffman, Henry Ford, and John J. McCloy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Consensus for the Nuclear Age | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

William Lovejoy of Yale and Robert Stinson of Princeton made the third string team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lewis Selected as Lacrosse All-Star | 12/13/1955 | See Source »

...been urging such mergers not only to improve airline service but to cut costs, and thus reduce the size of airline subsidies. Tom Braniff, who will continue to boss the line he founded 24 years ago with a single-engine Stinson plane and 116-mile route, is not anywhere near through expanding. He has applications pending for routes into Pittsburgh, New York and Washington and hopes, by equipment transfers with other lines, to extend his service to the West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Braniff Stretches Out | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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