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...seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1963 | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...three octaves her voice once covered, only the middle range remains unchanged." After the blitz, Callas remained incommunicado. Said her manager: "We don't argue with critics," though it did seem pesky of them to count up "the notes that went wrong, and not the thousands of notes that went right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...trial at all for well-bred Britons to keep a stiff upper lip all the way through Dunkirk, the Blitz and Suez. But through eight straight losses to the U.S. in the Walker Cup-now really, chaps, that was a bit much to ask. Englishmen take their golf seriously; after all, they practically invented the game. Actually, it was the Scots-but surely the Empire still stretches that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf, Track & Field: The Old Cat-o'-Nine-Tails | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...Rambler blitz cooled off the defending NCAA champs who connected on only two field goals in the last 14 minutes of regulation play. With four seconds to go, Loyola's All-American Jerry Harkness pumped in a jump shot that knotted the score at 54-54 and sent the contest into overtime...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Clutch Overtime Basket Wins Loyola NCAA Title | 3/25/1963 | See Source »

...government's deception of the people on the matter of nuclear war. Despite the claims of some shelter supporters, the Civil Defense program has not presented Americans with an honest picture of nuclear war. Most of the literature sounds as if it were written for the London blitz, and fails to see the qualitative difference between the V-2 and ICBM. Cambridge, for example, distributes one book-let that was written in 1950 and discusses an atomic bomb the size of the ones used over Japan. Another booklet begins, "Remember grandma's pantry, its shelves loaded with food, ready...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Civil Defense | 3/7/1963 | See Source »

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