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The candidate never refers to himself as I, and he never says anything is doubtful So "we" went to talk to the boys in the backroom of the firehouse, and meanwhile Shirley MacLame stole his audience outside. She is quite beautiful, more so than on the screen and even her...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: Ward 10, Manchester | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

Years ago, a leading New York tenor named Brignoli made a point of not being touched during onstage love scenes; that, he felt, would have been both indecent and unlucky. More recently, Soprano Beverly Sills went through an entire act of La Traviata with a tenor who never once looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Making Love to the Public | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

"Richard Nixon is underwhelming Europe, and the Europeans seem rather grateful," reported TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, who accompanied the President on his tour. "In a curious way, his strength was that he was so much himself. He was plainly not quite relaxed in the midst of ceremony, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON IN EUROPE: RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Not since the floor days of Lyndon Johnson and, for a brief while, the fitful reign of Oklahoma's late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Close to Kingship | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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