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...fated submarine. One can only ask, If there were none, what did the Russians fear would be found if Western rescue assistance were promptly enlisted? We don't know if British or American rescue attempts would have saved any Russian sailors; but they deserved that chance. MIKE RICKS Bobcaygeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself, it was as a commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses. In 1928 he startled the conservative Britishers in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death Comes for the Salesman | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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