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Vermont's tousled-haired, horticulturist Governor, George D. Aiken, proposed to his opponent for Republican Senatorial nomination that they jointly forswear roadside political advertising. His reason: "A wild clematis is far more attractive to our guests than either your face or mine on the side of a tree or barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

While Democrats, tense, baffled and depressed, began to gather at Chicago, Republican Willkie stretched out under a tree beside an artificial lake in Colorado Springs last week, took his shoes off. To a local resident, who apologized for the 92° heat, Mrs. Willkie said reassuringly: "Hot weather makes him lazy and that is just what he needs. I hope he shows signs of increasing laziness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Willkie Takes His Shoes Off | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Three of them lay huddled on the grass. Two others were crawling blindly away; one of them, hands to face, tried to get up off his knees, staggered and fell. A maple tree near by was stripped of leaves. An iron fence beyond was twisted awry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Death at the Fair | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Named for Lewis Miller, one of Chautauqua's founders, and donated by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. She presided last week at the opening meeting of Chautauqua's Bird & Tree Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Templeton in Chautauqua | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived when Linda and Jim, caught away from camp by a rainstorm, have to hole up in a tree for the night. No Columbia man, Cinemactor Fairbanks drops off to sleep. But he wakes up later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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