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Florence Umberhocker Bratten had served for 25 years as confidential secretary to Alben Barkley. A plump and jolly woman, she liked to boast that she had a first-name friend in every office in the Government. One of her friends was Charles E. ("Chuck") Shaver, counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. In the 1948 and 1950 campaigns, Shaver was Barkley's personal aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Influential Twosome | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Little Shaver. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., 13-year-old Private Robert Young was discharged from the Army after officers noticed that he had no whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Restless Foot | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...production in cheap lines.) There are such ingenious gadgets as: 1 "Juggle-head" ($1.98), a magnetic head which can be given different faces by sticking on various types of noses, hair, ears, etc.; 2) a mechanical monkey ($1.98) that harvests coconuts from a palm tree; 3) a toy "electric" shaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Babes in Toyland | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Linda Susan Agar, aged four months, posed for her first picture with mother Shirley Temple, 20, who not so long ago was a little shaver herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Formative Years | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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