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Eamon McDonough would be doing more for the future of the country if he were to go to both the church pew and the election booth on election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Wife & Washington. When Dick's older brother Harold had TB, Mrs. Nixon took him to Prescott, Ariz., and in the summers, Dick joined them, working as a barker for the wheel of fortune at the Frontier Days Rodeo. He learned the knack of drumming up customers, and his booth became the most popular in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fighting Quaker | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...country is faced with a choice between Uriah Keep ("I am aware that I am the 'umblest person going") and the Constant Tin Soldier ("He did not think it right to shout in uniform"). For myself, on election day I shall go not to the election booth but to the church pew and pray for the future of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...times every second - almost 400 million times a year - some worried citizen peers down the length of one of the nation's 50,000 drugstores - past the lunch counter, the toys, the plastic raincoats, the hair lotions and tooth powders - and finally catches sight of the little glass booth marked "Prescriptions." To the pharmacist in the booth he hands a slip of paper marked with the magical device, "Ŗ" the name of a drug and a few cabalistic symbols squiggled in abbreviated Latin. A few minutes later, the customer walks out of the drugstore again, confident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

What the Democrats lacked in noise they made up in quantity: they had so many candidates that almost every telephone booth was somebody's headquarters. Many were bewildered by bright blue "India for Veep" ribbons; they had not been worrying about the Bengal vote. (The ribbons meant that Mrs. India Edwards wanted to be Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Affairs: We Shall Triumph Again | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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