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Word: wagoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats from House seats. He landed in Washington with bright expectations: "I was kind of steamed up about being on the team and finding out who the quarterback was." He found out all right: the only quarterback for Chuck Chamberlain was Chuck Chamberlain. "My God," he recalls, "the Welcome Wagon came out to see Mrs. Chamberlain when we had the electric meter hooked up, but nobody from the Republican high command came around to see me." From House Republican Leaders Joe Martin and Charles Halleck came only one direct piece of advice: "When you have to make a decision between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Meeting the People | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Grand Blanc at 7 that night. He suddenly realized that he was already go minutes late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain seemed to thrive on it, and his words tumbled out in a turmoil of enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Meeting the People | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...sloping rear deck. Dealers expect that one new feature will sell well to women and oldsters: swivel front seats that make it simpler to get in and out. Chicago's Fohrman Motors has had 100 nibbles from potential customers for Chrysler Corp. cars, 90 of them for station wagons. A record 28% of Plymouth's '58 output went to station wagons, and Plymouth dealers talk hopefully of 40% to 45% station-wagon sales this year. The new DeSoto made its debut in the press last week, mildly facelifted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Fast Getaway | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...sacred river!" sang the soprano, and flinging aside her dagger, collapsed on the stage. As the curtain fell, buxom Eileen Farrell hoisted herself to her feet, trudged back to her dressing room and sighed: "When I'm through this role, I'll be ready for the paddy wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Medea & the Paddy Wagon | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...aide soothed him: "Don't worry, Pat. Everybody's here." Brown looked carefully around just to make sure. "Well," he explained, "I want to get out there while people are still going to work." He spun, led the way out the door, clambered into a Plymouth station wagon. Edmund Gerald Brown, 53, Democratic candidate for Governor of California, odds-on favorite in what may be the most important contest of Election Year 1958, was on his way to a 6:15 a.m. appointment with destiny. He did not intend to be late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just Plain Pat | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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