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...spinster, as the really grandes dames usually are. And she is known to sit quietly in a straightback mahogany chair--Colonial period-- in a drawing room of shadows, counting her memories on a rosary. She accepts visitors and offers them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentlemen Will Save the World | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...medical bulletins eliminated the phrase "without complications." He shaved standing up; barber Martin Himmelsbach cut his hair. He phoned the Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homeward Bound | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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