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...took off her tennis shoes and got her hair cut and took a bath, she'd be all right." When will he announce his presidential intentions? "I can't give you any timetable. I would much prefer to stay in the Senate, where my tongue can wag more than in the redecorated White House. Jackie's got it ready for me -it's got an 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: In Front | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...neither pretty nor witty, though unmistakably a virgin. He, at 42, was both wag and scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Placid, Proper--and Pheasant | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...played in the honky-tonks and brothels of Sedalia at the turn of the century, ragtime would have won neither sponsors nor the approval of Newton Minow. A derivative of the Negro spiritual, it opposed a syncopated right hand to a marching bass, and it talked, as one wag observed, of the six days of the week the spirituals ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Songs: Rag Peddler | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...month red-brick house he has rented in Georgetown, Washington confidently expects him to behave just like any other freshman Senator who happens to be 30 years old and a brother of the President. Teddy would like to be on the Foreign Relations Committee (not necessarily, as one wag suggested, as chairman), but will probably settle instead for a spot on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Labor and Public Welfare, or Commerce Committee. From such a post, Teddy's aides say, he can really do MORE for Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Keeping the Pledge | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 9, 1962 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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