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Imperial Russian counts have never carried much clout in the Soviet Union. But Count Leo Tolstoy is somebody special. Last week marked the 140th birth day of the great author, whose deep sympathy for the restive peasants of his day has earned him the approval of the Kremlin. To honor the occasion there was a large party at Moscow's State Museum and a mass pilgrimage to his grave. For a change, party functionaries and intellectuals found something they could celebrate together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1968 | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Forked Tongue. In Baltimore, Ralph Brickerd, 57, displayed a sign reading DEAF AND DUMB. PLEASE HELP to City Patrolman George T. Hughes, was asked what he meant by it, readily replied: "It's a fast way to make a buck," was arrested for the 140th time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...more than three weeks Arnold and McCall talked to disk jockeys and teenagers, practiced bop talk around the office. When they first tried the routine on Brigadier General Joseph C. Moffitt, commanding officer of the Colorado Air Guard (the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing), he didn't quite dig the parradiddle. "He thought we had flipped our beanies. He was real square." But when he heard the first tape recording, the general "was real sent. He felt them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Real Cool Yonder | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Please allow me to correct a statement made in the May 18 issue of your widely read magazine. I am not commanding the 140th Tank Battalion, only Company A of the 140th Tank Battalion. The battalion commander is Colonel William Fondren, Armor, U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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