Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start Rogers made it plain that he does not consider radio-TV just another communications medium...
Humphrey. At midweek Hubert Humphrey, in a grey worsted suit, TV-blue shirt and red tie, bounced into a news conference in a Senate Office Building committee room to Declare. In a bub bling mood, he made it plain that he was just about the last of the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, and a poorboy (see box) "spokesman" for the "plain people." Adroit Campaigner Humphrey based his pitch on the claim that Vice President Richard Nixon can be beaten only by a nominee who can "carry the fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party...
During his first year as Cuba's boss, Premier Fidel Castro has made it increasingly plain to visiting newsmen that they are working on borrowed time. Non-Cuban correspondents, writing the truth about Cuba as they see it, have been harried: the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois (see below), after switching from praise to criticism of Castro, was refused food, drink, and haircuts in Havana, finally hounded right out of Cuba; James Buchanan of the Miami Herald was banished from the island after being convicted of conspiracy against Castro's regime (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Castro...
After only 28 performances on Broadway, Only in America, a comedy based on the life of Harry Golden, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and editor (the bimonthly Carolina Israelite), closed and faded into oblivion. Taking sad note of the closing in the current Israelite, Golden speaks on the power of the Broadway critics, whose predominantly unfavorable reviews helped kill the show...
Against the shrewdly calculated corn of Harry Golden's For 2$ Plain and the old wives' appeal of Dr. D. C. Jarvis' Folk Medicine, there can be set Garrett Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...