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...liners, as when he calls Man-Tan "instant Mau Mau," and sometimes he lapses into corn, but mainly he tells stories with a sharp point. He says that white people often wonder how colored people, who have such low-paying jobs, can afford to own Cadillacs. Well, first there is that $500-a-year saving on the country club, another $1,500 a year on the Florida vacation-and so on into the driver's seat of a Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Humor, Integrated | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...President's office, the pale green walls were newly painted minutes after Ike moved out, but Kennedy ordered them repainted-in white. The two red couches were sent out to be re-covered in tan. Ike's gold-eagle bookends stayed on the presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: New Folks at Home | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Standard's Jack Rathbone is used to dealing on a big scale. From his corner office on the 29th floor of Manhatten tan's RCA Building, he directs a worldwide organization consisting of 48 affiliates in 34 countries, 146,000 employees and 53 refineries on five continents- all of which provide 18% of the world's total oil consumption. Despite a worldwide oil glut, Jersey Standard managed to raise its earnings 6½% to $2.62 a share in 1960's first ten months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Humble Man | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...talk about the need for an ambassador-at-large, Caroline Kennedy toddled out, wearing a robe with a rabbit-eared hood and carrying a pair of her mother's black shoes. "Hi, Daddy," she said. "Aren't you going to come in?" Daddy blushed scarlet beneath his tan, murmured his answer ("In a few minutes") as he helped his daughter on with the outsize shoes, grinned at reporters: "I didn't plan this." As Caroline clip-clopped back into the house, somber Bill Fulbright was smiling as broadly as anyone there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President-Elect: Operation Rooney | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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