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Robert Lubar was collecting facts on Britain's aircraft industry and also trying to determine to what extent the failure of Britain's ill-fated jet Comet (TIME, Nov. 1) had damaged the industry. Joe David Brown was driving back from a chilly week's traveling in...
Elsa Maxwell was obviously destined to be the life of the party from birth. That occasion came one memorable evening in the back of a theater box at Keokuk, Iowa. Her mother had miscalculated and had confidently gone to the opera that evening. Elsa's birth cry rose mightily...
Then, at the age of 70, writes Dr. Stuart in Fifty Years in China, "I was catapulted by strange circumstances into the U.S. ambassadorship at Nanking." The circumstances: General George Marshall wanted his help in the ill-fated mission to bring together the country's Nationalist rulers and Communist...
To the critics of Jordan, it should ge pointed out that this was a well-coached Crimson football team making mistakes of inexperience, playing overly cautious football. Jordan has never built his single wing around flash and surprise, but its power, as evidence during the ill-fated 70-yard match...
¶ In an age of "antinomian" historians (who are devoted "to the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in...