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...that she "carried" Ike in Tyler, why then he "might" have been born there. From a rancher came a letter insisting that Ike came from Commerce, Texas (pop. 6,200). Then the word rustled out of Bug Tussle (pop. 10), 35 miles north of Commerce, that one elderly Bug Tussler had known the Eisenhower family there "in the old days." At West Point, officials dug into the archives, came up with the incontrovertible word: Ike did indeed give his birthplace as Denison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Rustle in Bug Tussle | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Bishop in the Episcopal Church relishes a tussle over principle more than New York's stern, small William Thomas Manning. He has taken on and worsted many a smart tussler, including Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Bertrand Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New York v. Canterbury | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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