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Queen Elizabeth took the helm of the SS. Queen Elizabeth on its first postwar run down the Clyde. Said Her Majesty: "It felt lovely-just lovely." Then, while her daughters inspected the engine room, the Queen had a spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Nevertheless few of these ex-service-academy footballers are likely to be drafted this fall. Kelly, having served 22 months as a gob before he went to Annapolis, is exempt. So are McWilliams and Arkansas' Clyde Scott (ex-Annapolis)-thanks to being enrolled in advanced R.O.T.C. Most vulnerable: Penn's Minisi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Evasive Action? | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Senator Briggs, a trained machine politician, dutifully asked the Henry County Democratic Committee for the name of a deserving Democrat for the job. The committee decided on 33-year-old Clyde Smith, a World War II veteran. In due time Smith got his notice of appointment signed by the first assistant postmaster general. He turned his oil business over to his wife, moved into the postoffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Battery Mate | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Died. James ("Jimmy") Maxton, 61, firebrand leader for 19 years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Social Relations 14 did not receive the mark of indolence usually applied by male students. Associate Professor Clyde K. Kluckhohn is regarded highly, and reassuring word came that some of the girls have already started the outside reading, even though it is voluntary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Favors English Courses | 7/12/1946 | See Source »

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