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Work in Motion. At work in the White House until 9:45 one morning, he walked down the South Lawn to a quivering olive-drab giant, Army H34 Helicopter No. 64316, that needed only 34 minutes to set him down 80 miles away beside his home-town polling booth in Barlow Fire Hall, near Gettysburg. He tore the identifying #35 off the corner of his Pennsylvania primary ballot and boarded his bird again, whisking off to Harrisburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exciting My Wonderment | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...exploited. College boys plastered downtown store windows with promotional stickers, annoying merchants so much that KMYR ran a newspaper ad apologizing. The first hints as to where the loot was buried were totally worthless. Sample: "Fifty grand is much money, forsooth/Don't waste your time in a telephone booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Springtime in the Rockies | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

March. The daughter of a Columbia physics professor, Elfrida forthrightly explains her agonized look in the isolation booth: "I've always had this kind of face, frowning and squinting. I'm not hamming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady with the Answers | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Dulsa & Jerque." Truth was Winchell had voted in at least the last two national elections (Elsa claimed that she got her information from a 1952 New York Post series) and could prove it; in 1956, he had proudly posed for a picture as he entered a Manhattan precinct booth to strike a blow for Ike and Dick. Said Walter: "I said to NBC I want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Titans of Babel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...WAYNE C. BOOTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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