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...pulse, temperature and blood pressure were normal. As the patient neared the end of the first critical fortnight, Dr. White prepared to fly back to Denver to work out a program of convalescence with the other doctors. If all went well, the President would be flown back to his Gettysburg farm in two or three weeks. After another month of convalescence there, he may be able to return to Washington and full duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waiting | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Kress was better known as an old master of business, but in his business as in his collecting, he was essentially a talented copyist. He was born in eastern Pennsylvania just three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, where his uncle and namesake was killed. His Pennsylvania Dutch family was moderately well off, and Sam, the second of six children, became a country schoolteacher at 17. After seven years of frugally saving part of his $25-a-month salary, he bought a notions store in Nanticoke, Pa.; three years later he bought out a wholesaler in Wilkes-Barre and looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: Collector No. I | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Gettysburg Bullets 27, Bucknell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How an Announcer Earned His Pay | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...state, for seven days a week and 52 weeks a year, a former President and a General of the Army of the U.S.-a man who longs, as we all know, for the comforts of a handsome farm stead on the fertile soil of Adams County, near Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Fight Talk on Nob Hill | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. Victor Borge in two one-man shows, Jack Benny in three original comedies, and Julie Harris in A Wind from the South. CBS viewers will also get a new cartoon series made by UPA, the producers of Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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