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...taxpayers," observed Harry Truman with a grin last week, "are working me too hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man at Work | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...bills, and agreed to cooperate if it was whittled down to six: expansion of social security, extension of the draft and MAP, the omnibus $29 billion appropriation bill, a bill cutting excise taxes, and a final attempt to pass FEPC. Said Ohio's Robert A. Taft with a grin: "Our part of the deal would be to keep the boys from talking." Adjournment target: August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Getting Restless | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Easygoing Lloyd Mangrum, who never lets his golf interfere with his good humor, kept right on smiling all through the go-hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All Smiles | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parade Rest | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...also offered a helping hand to another aspiring politician. Clad in a wide grin and a sharply honed tan suit, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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