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Rump Session. At the White House somebody goofed twice in a row on forgetting to invite the Democrats' House Majority Leader John McCormack to two presidential briefings held for congressional leaders. House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck put a bug in the President's ear. Promptly, Ike invited McCormack for a full hour's presidential question-and-answer session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Capital Notes | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Bug Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...staff tearfully quoted (in Italian) the lines sung by Madame Butterfly before she commits harakiri. Author Schlesinger also manages a certain amount of humor in describing the great rush of theorists to Washington, including the Agricultural Department lawyer who. on a field trip. saw his first lightning bug and cried: "Good God! What's that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lilac Time in Washington | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics plastered a cast around badly sprained ligaments, a dislocated kneecap. Obvious upshot: no racer for young David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...seat of the Meyners' state-owned Cadillac. "These women come up to me with these flowers and they all seem to stick me in the chest when they pin them on me. I keep the pins as souvenirs." Says she: "We're not bitten by the presidential bug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOPEFULS' HELPMATES | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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