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Boisterous old (67) Hugh Dalton submitted his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and suggested that other oldsters do likewise. Emanuel Shinwell, 70, and William Whiteley, 72, longtime Labor whip, followed suit. So did schoolmasterly old (72) Chuter Ede, because he thought younger men needed experience in leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time of Ceremony | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...months Roy Halvorson cut trees on weekends and brought them home. At night he and his wife Ede tried out hundreds of ways to color and preserve them. Finally, they perfected a solution that would keep them fresh for weeks, even in the warmest living room. Their secret: a formula of water and plant foods which, when sealed in a metallic tree base, acts as an artificial sap. Using that process, Roy and Ede Halvorson have since built up the biggest processed Christmas-tree business in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Father & Mother Christmas | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...dwellers, the Halvorsons have old-fashioned ideas about Christmas trees. Says Roy: "I'd ask my crews to find me a good Christmas tree this year-a big one. But they're so used to cutting the small ones, they have lousy taste for big ones. So Ede and I will have to go down to the corner lot and buy one that will satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Father & Mother Christmas | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Coach Ede Marion's fencing team lost its opening match of the season here Saturday, 18 to 9, to a strong Army squad. The Cadets took the foil and the sabre, 7 to 2 and 8 to 1 respectively, but the Crimson rallied to pull out the epee match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/9/1954 | See Source »

...coup in British Guiana. Both sides of the House had applauded his statement that there is no room in the Commonwealth for a Communist state, but the Socialists questioned his wisdom in suspending the tiny colony's six-months-old constitution. They muffed their case badly: James Chuter Ede, onetime Laborite Home Secretary, made a memorable blooper by referring to Guiana as an "island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Decline or Fall (Contd.) | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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