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Headquarters Bloke. For 26 of his 52 years shrewd Sir Arthur Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Wings Over the Desert | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...tennis world, there are about five blokes who are as good as each other. In order to win. a bloke needs a bit of luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists to Forest Hills | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Prudent, the fellow drove to a police station, where he called cheerily, "Ullo! This bloke inside me cab wants to go to Bucking'am Palace. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What' ll I Do? | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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