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Duisburg's Fifty-Sixth. On Duisburg in the Ruhr the R.A.F. made its 56th raid. Target: railway and river port facilities in the Rhineland's heart. Luftwaffe night fighters were again up in force and the R.A.F. lost eleven bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Beginning of a Mission | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Market Wise, with Basil James up: the 56th annual Suburban Handicap; defeating famed Whirlaway by three lengths; before a Memorial Day crowd of 52,000; at New York's Belmont Park. The day's pari-mutuel handle was $2,176,071, a world's record for one day's racetrack betting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...John B. Dunlap and Calvin B. Garwood (see cut) of the 56th Cavalry Brigade, a Texas National Guard outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Brushing Up | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...182The President celebrated his 56th birthday one day early with a dinner for the "Cuff Link Club"-Roosevelt intimates who have been awarded gold cuff links for faithful service.* On the night of the President's Birthday Balls-to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign-he broadcast a personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Iffy | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mighty Work | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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