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...last week, an armored car drew up before a six-story building on Manhattan's East 51st Street. Out stepped a mail carrier clutching a brown-wrapped package. Entering the building, he plunked the package on the reception desk of Jeweler Harry Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Big Rocks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely-syndicated columnist. (The yip-yippity-yip of his frenetic friend Walter Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Rene Peroy's fencing team packed up and left for New York last night to prepare for the 51st annual Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Underdog Sword Squad Heads for Giant N.Y. Meet | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

...above the piteous honking of stalled traffic. Explosions boomed; sirens howled. Police whistles trilled madly as Legionnaires decoyed harried truck drivers to the curb. One night, hundreds of shirt-sleeved Legionnaires hung out the windows of the Taft and Victoria Hotels, fired barrages of water-filled paper bags across 51st Street at each other, howled with vulgar glee as the missiles fell short and plummeted into the crowd below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: The Battle of Broadway | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...think you will find that General Marshall is the 51st Secretary of State and not the <(48th ... in the line started by Thomas Jefferson" [TIME, Jan. 27]. You could arrive very close to your figure-49-by eliminating the return engagements of Daniel Webster and James G. Elaine, but that isn't good political arithmetic, albeit reportorial face-saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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