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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night Teddy . . . " One of the Few. To the house nurse, who complains that Caroline's and Baby John's toys are getting mixed up in the bathtub, Jack explains: "Yes, well, let me make a judgment about that. Now the uh following toys have been appropriated for tub use: 18 PT boats, three uh Yogi Bear uh beach balls, two Howdy Doody plastic uh bouncing clowns, a ball of uh Silly Putty and a rubber swan. Now, let me make a uh judgment on the dispersal of these items. Nine of the PT boats, two of the Yogi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The First Family | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Flush the Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sewing Back an Arm | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...Witt") Stevens, one of the all-time great back-room boys, and Arkansas' political eminence grise. Both Faubus and Stevens are masters of the possible--Faubus slipped only once, on the issue that made his national reputation, and Stevens has never slipped (not even in the bath-tub, they say). Like Faubus, Stevens rose to power from backwoods obscurity, and the two men were influential in making each other's fortunes. Stevens has financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done all his all to smooth the path of the Witt Stevens Company, the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Corporation (ArkLa), which...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Arkansas: Colorful Politics | 4/17/1962 | See Source »

...Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March 31, 1958) to build a glossy Park Avenue duplex penthouse. With the help of his wife Maria, Stone turned the place into a never-never land of white marble, pink silk, Turkish lamps and other assorted fixtures of Cinemascopic proportions. The sunken marble tub is merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants to put on a private screening, Spiegel presses a button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Living It Up | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...short, before that tub is halfway to the Hub. the spectator understands that what he is giggling at is a shaggy story-nothing so apocalyptically sneaky, of course, as John Huston's deathless Beat the Devil, but a piece of fine hairy humor all the same. Deftly adapted by Ruth Brooks Flippen and Bruce Geller from a novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Unsussessful Crinimal | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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