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...King's Own Scottish Borderers, now deaf, blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years in the Burma police, learned ''what the ten-year soldier tells: 'If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Road to Mandalay | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

About Galento, Joe Louis' only recorded remark is: "What fo' dat funny li'l fat man want to go 'round callin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...birth occurred was in Manhattan's City Hall Place, now called Cardinal Place. The year was 1867. Orphaned early, the Cardinal remembers of his Irish immigrant mother only that she once carried him through a maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics in Cleveland | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...printed cards are callin and the Freshmen...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...eard the deb a-callin', you won't never 'edd naught else...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

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