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...party. But President Quirino, alternately jealous and proud of Magsaysay, has an avuncular affection for his Secretary of Defense. He has given Magsaysay extra jobs-among them, running the vital Manila Railroad and Philippines Airlines. Magsaysay himself shrugs his shoulders, twists his eloquent brown face into a broad grin and asks: "How can a person get mad because we hold honest elections? All I did was follow religiously the instructions of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Cleanup Man | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...could hardly sleep all last night," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. General Assembly. "I could not sleep because I kept laughing." He bent his white-thatched terrier's head over a typed manuscript, then looked up with a sharp-toothed grin. "Really, even from this rostrum ... I cannot restrain my laughter." There were a few appreciative giggles from Reds in the galleries, but otherwise Vishinsky laughed alone as he gave Russia's answer to the West's dis armament proposals (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Snickerers | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Goldolphin has been known to ride seniors around Nassau Hall in a rickshaw, and his famous grin prompted a song rhyming "grin" and "sin" with the sentiment that it was from the latter that he got his income. At the end of the ceremonies, all the seniors break their pipes on the cannon. The sundial is another place reserved for seniors, with steps on which only members of the graduating class...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...with his back to the board, seldom turning to watch it. Every now & then Mrs. Attlee would glance at the results and pat her husband on the shoulder as he sipped his tea. By Friday, he was almost dead on his feet, but he still rallied enough energy to grin and wave at a few lingering supporters. "I don't know how he does it," said a sympathetic friend, "when he knows this is the end of six years of hard work." Asked by reporters if the former Prime Minister would make a statement, a government press officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Pauls record wherever they happen to be. They carry the recorders with them on their road tours, and send batches of recordings to Capitol Records for pressing and distribution. Says Paul with a grin: "We grind 'em out like hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Sound | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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