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...moment, the Democrats' question was not so much what, but who. With neither Truman nor Stevenson left in the race, the party suddenly found itself in a quandary it has not known for 20 years. It was a wide-open fight, with no orders from the White House-and with Estes Kefauver, the man the Truman Democrats most emphatically do not want to succeed, running out in front of the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Famine | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Taking a very optimistic view of the "new, wide-open, and expanding field of personnel administration" John W. Teele '27, Director of Personnel, strongly encouraged students to consider the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careers Speakers Say To Start With Bottom In Field of Personnel | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

...andante itself was slightly reminiscent of Bartok. But from then on, the rest of the concerto was undiluted Chávez-bursting with repeated-note, marim-balike rhythms, themes sometimes curiously plaintive, sometimes broad with the flavor of mesquite and wide-open spaces, and orchestrated throughout with all the colors of a Mexican scrape. Some listeners found it too long (45 minutes); there were eight movements, plus a long cadenza which demanded, and received, much from its performer, but added little to the concerto. Once Viviane halted calmly to tune her violin, while the orchestra played on, and drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 45 Minutes in Mexico | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Though Yale College was not reported on the book said: "New Haven is a wide-open town, with numbers, policy, reefers, and hookers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Say Book May Be Libelous, Bookstores in Square Stop Sale | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

...across, Elaine met her first celebrity, young "Bertie" McCormick, later to become the famous colonel of Chicago journalism. "She's refreshing," Bertie gasped, after a whirl among the wide-open spaces of Elaine's personality. "Like a minor cyclone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oregon Cyclone | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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