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...Charlotte, N.C. City Council changed the name of Lindbergh Drive to Avon Terrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Chorus | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzbusiness | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

During the past twelve years, Psychiatrist Neil Avon Dayton of Boston's Tufts College, with a grant of $140,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, has run these questions down. With 24 social workers, he dug into the records of 89,000 mental patients who had passed through Massachusetts hospital doors in the turbulent years 1917-33. Last week he published New Facts on Mental Disorders (C. C. Thomas; $4.50), a statistical treatise on insanity in the U. S. His facts were startling, his conclusions encouraging. No groaner, Dr. Dayton believes that "the great mass of the population possesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope for Sanity | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Flushing-on-Avon | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...March 13 issue, on p. 44, TIME said that a man in Stratford-on-Avon died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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