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...Western Touch. From Berthoud Pass, the Cadillac rolled down the western slope of the Rockies into a long, grassy valley (alt.: 8,561 ft.), at one end of which lies the town of Fraser (pop. 350). Fraser, whose dusty streets and log buildings look like sets for a horse opera, was a little subdued. There had been a fatal shooting in Bud's Bar a few days before, and most everyone was getting ready to go to the funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Complete Vacationer | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

William R. Fraser of the Quaker Team of the U.N.; Vernon Nash, author and lecturer active in the world government movement; H. Donald Williams, New England Executive Director of United World Federalists; and Gordon D. Hall, author, will address the Conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agar Talk Opens Conference on UN | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...British Petroleum." The man who bossed the pumps is Anglo-Iranian's chairman, Sir William Fraser, 64, a tough, aloof Scotsman. The son of an oilman, he started out in Scotland's hardscrabble oil-shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Back from Abadan | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Last week an anti-Communist charged that there were spies at the Rum Jungle uranium mines (see below) and even in Parliament itself. Australians were beginning to wonder whether the government's search for the traitors was getting anywhere. In Parliament last month, Laborite Allan Fraser asked: "Can the Minister for External Affairs inform me whether the nest of traitors is still in public service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Nest of Traitors | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Fraser: "Will the Minister say why the traitors have not been arrested and placed on trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Nest of Traitors | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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