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Handsome Stu Symington can give Jack Kennedy a run for the cameras, and-a millionaire himself-he also has the money to wage an all-out campaign. His family can match the Kennedys in looks if not in numbers, and probably surpass them as entertainers (Wife Eve was once a $1,000-a-week cafe-society chanteuse. Son Jim is a semiprofessional guitarist and folk singer, and Daughter-in-Law Sylvia an accomplished pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ready, Willing & Running | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...roles. He knew no German or French, nor did he sing Mozart in any language; he was largely limited to the big Italian works. But within that grateful range he created a whole gallery of careful portrayals infused with a passion and authority no baritone of his time could surpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Morir!... Tremenda Cosa | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped to run the total close to the half-million mark before April, which would make this the biggest test of any live vaccine in U.S. medical history, and surpass the figure of 440,000 children covered by the 1954 trials of Salk vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One-Swallow Vaccine | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Although these early figures show a significant increase, Henry doubted that the overall number of applicants will surpass by a large amount last year's total of 4,200. "It is much too early to predict," he stated, "but the total may rise about...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Applications Rise 15% Above 1958, May Top Record | 11/28/1959 | See Source »

Both museums at Harvard can be proud of these well-selected exhibits. There is nothing now being shown in Boston that can surpass them...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Two University Exhibits | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

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