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On a royal excursion to the Hejaz, King Ibn Saud finally put to use the C-47 transport plane which had come as a gift from Franklin Roosevelt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Ladies First | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

It was spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures In Thurberland | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Mention of third Companiers Ballentine and Ainley is important. These former Bruins are a little put out since we mentioned the Sheller-English excursion and failed to mention them. Church-goers Murray, Neil, and Neilson were happy to see the Easter season come. They hit church every morn--just about...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/3/1945 | See Source »

¶ Asher Durand, once the nation's leading engraver, helped raise landscape painting to such esteem that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1858 ran an artists' excursion train, took Durand and a party of colleagues on a cross-country junket. The six-car train, equipped with piano, sofas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Nature Lovers | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

But a Canadian infantry brigade and artillery were shipped to Brittany in June 1940, to take part in the Battle of France. They had not been there long when the move was recognized as futile and evacuation ordered. The only casualties from this fruitless excursion were a man killed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Under the Red Ensign | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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