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...moving addendum to the crisp legal language of his order, Sey bourn Lynne made a personal plea for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Inexorable Process | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

Keen on the sporting life since his days as an amateur pug in Prague, barrel-chested Metropolitan Tenor Kurt Bourn asked a former neighbor, Wrestler Antonino Rocca, to demonstrate his headlock technique. As any friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...bourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Ain't Got No Sting | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Dove That Goes Boom | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...undiscovered country from whose bourn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Beyond Silence | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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