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Barton dropped the column before his election to Congress from Manhattan's Republican "silk-stocking" district (1937), has long itched to resume it. Still hustling and hopeful at 63, Bruce Barton says: "I sometimes wrote [when I was younger] as though I knew all the answers. The years soften...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: With Hustle & Hope | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

John Reed president George W. Stocking, Jr. '49 was unavailable last night for comment.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JRC Planned Eisler Address This Week | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

Sheer Ecstasy. In Hollywood, William C. Shaw Jr. explained to police who arrested him why he was wearing a nylon stocking over his face: "It makes me feel so good when I take it off."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Ward-level thinking came naturally to Bill Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Spoilsman | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Ping-Pong Imperialists | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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