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The name of the 49-year-old man in a well-cut blue-grey suit was Fawzi Kawukji. To thousands of Arabs in the Middle East the name carried a ring of romantic derring-do. To hundreds of Arabs in Palestine, as to all of Palestine's Jews, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Reunion for Trouble | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Then the "dead" father turns up, the mere bandaged victim of a whack on the head; and Christy sinks from a hero to a butt. To regain his stature, he tries to murder his "da" all over again; but to Pegeen, a dirty squabble in her own backyard is something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Derring-Do

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Gastronomy | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

U.S. destroyers, the "tin can fleet," are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald's can, the O'Bannon, is named after a marine. The marine was Lieut. Presley N. O'Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Glory for a Tin Can | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Many of the School's innovations were indeed bits of derring-do in the field of business training. It introduced the case system, which tries to give men an idea of the innumerable industrial activities they can eventually engage in. It offered courses in human problems in industrial management, thereby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Experiment | 1/8/1943 | See Source »

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