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...requiring the owners to run at least four trains daily. "They," said Miss Bessemer scornfully of the Transport Commission, "have got to keep the law just like everyone else." Fire in her eyes, she enlisted the aid of her M.P., a Tory who answers to the name of Tufton Beamish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Miss Bessemer's Crusade | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music on the far side of Bethlehem. Beamed the spectacle's beamish mastermind, Liberace: "I just love Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...Place has no church, no chapel, no cinema, no football field. About all it does have are three streets of red brick houses, 259 inhabitants who mostly work in the local Beamish Mary coalpit, and a hearty dislike for Durham County authorities. For No Place learned last week that Durham's planners had condemned it to slow extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Place to Go | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Pink-cheeked, beamish, the inevitable cigar in his hand and the dignity of greatness about him, Winston Churchill faced some 200 newsmen panting to know just why he had made the wintry Atlantic crossing, in such a hurry, to visit with Dwight Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Between Old Friends | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...convened from every section of the country by Columbia's Scholastic Press Association-excitedly wondered if the President would toss them a whopping scoop, such as an announcement that he will run for office again. Harry Truman chose not to let that cat out of the bag. Instead, beamish and bubbly, he told his young audience in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Follow the Gleam | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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