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Some of the girls think that Sandy is really cutesy, to borrow a pejorative coinage from the play itself, because she deliberately stumbles all over her lines and waves her hands helplessly like a three-year-old, soaking up empathy for her inability to cope with the world. The girls might well ask: If she is so helpless, how did she land the president of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Two in the Center | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...more months he is ready for retirement, and he realizes ruefully that the firm "had taken the one idea of an old man, ignoring the pain out of which it was born, and now he was no longer necessary to them." His three-year-old life is over-and in both its brevity and its pain, it can stand for the life of any man who has committed himself too late to living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short, Painful Life | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...hiking interest rates and reducing the credit supply in its zeal to head off inflation. Now that some prices are rising anew, the central bankers again must ponder the question of whether to battle inflation at the risk of nipping the economy's three-year-old expansion. In recent months Chairman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Fight over the Federal Reserve | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...barbershop, where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted to die with our baby," Chapman says. "Halfway down, I saw an engineer coming up through the smoke with Geoffrey in his arms. That man saved his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: The Last Voyage of the Lakonia | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...Year cover I suggest three-year-old John-John saluting the coffin bearing his father's body. It would symbolize the eternal light, the resurrection of a new year, a new future, and new hopes in our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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