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Harry Truman still looks trim and cocky during public appearances, still gets up early enough to work before breakfast. But except on rare occasions, his famed two-mile morning hikes are now a thing of the past-abandoned under the stress of White House toil, and at the urging of White House physician General Wallace Graham to get the President to sleep a little later in the morning. Last week sharp-eyed reporters noted another alteration in the President's personal routine-after years of folding his breast-pocket handkerchief so that four geometrically perfect points protruded, he appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Hike, New Hanky | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

After a summer of sporadic weekly toil, the Crime departs from Cambridge with this issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Passes On | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Eurich and Wilson set up, revised, and tried out innumerable questions with the help of 30-odd researchers, several professors of arts and social sciences, and hundreds of submissive students. The team emerged from all this toil, sweat and tedium in May 1934 with a quiz they liked. The scholarly American Council on Education also liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...from Hell's Kitchen had never found much time for social life; he and his wife seldom went out, seldom entertained. His work was still his life, and he drove other men to work simply by example-by his own almost fearful enthusiasm, energy and capacity for toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: The Man at the Wheel | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...Crookshank, Tory M.P. for Gainsborough, rose last week in the House of Commons and described the condition of Britain. Said he: "There is muddle in defense, muddle in groundnuts, jmddle in newsprint, muddle in coal, muddle in housing, and now the greatest muddle of all-meat. 'Muddle, muddle toil and muddle' is [the government's] motto. The trouble is that these witches somewhere on the Whitehall heath cannot go on to say, 'Fire burn and cauldron bubble,' because there is a fuel muddle as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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