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...clumsy, big-nosed and dull-eyed, North dozed quietly while Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Chatham and Barre hurled at him some of the greatest invective in English. He admired their eloquence; sometimes he even applauded, but he regarded their speeches generally as so much windy verbiage. Though his ministry was corrupt, he was personally honest, went into debt, and wept in the House of Commons over his poverty. When he heard the news of Yorktown, he staggered as though shot, cried: "Oh God, it is all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War or Revolution? | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Retort. In Chatham, N.Y., Landlord Frank Waldvogel explained to police why he had finally shot and killed a tenant he was trying to evict: the tenant just kept saying, "Hmmm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Chatham, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...letter to Chatham County Commissioner Judge James T. Houlihan, Miami Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army-Navy-General-Electric experiment (an attempt to break up the storm), Weatherman Norton explained, might have been at least partly responsible for the storm's abrupt left face and subsequent heavy march through Florida and Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Yankee Meddling? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

MORGAN MONROE Publisher Chatham Courier Chatham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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