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Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Battle of Omaha | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Died. Willie Howard (real name: William Levkowitz), 62, wizened, mop-haired stage comic who convulsed theatergoers for half a century with his low-comedy antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Most of North China's people accepted the Red threat with wizened calm. A typical point of view was shown by a note on the bulletin board of a club in Tangshan, center of the richest coal-mining region in all Nationalist China. The note read:"For sale-Hawaiian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flee Where? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

At 74, he is a bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Destiny & Digestion | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

"Well, I'm not throwing the Bullock you. Harvard has many an Ableman" quoth the wizened philosopher, taking a hitch in his Rawers. "We'll throw McDaniel into the Irosu den."

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Oriental Sees Blaik Turning Crimson in Tilt's Aftermath | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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