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...Three meeting. Then, back at No. 10 Downing Street, he waited for the election count. Next evening, when defeat was sure, he went back to Buckingham Palace to resign and hand over to the King the seals of office. His Majesty offered him the Order of the Garter. Churchill refused the dignity. An hour later he issued a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Loser | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about at the breakfast table, and a nice, easy, assured personality to match. For music lovers, insensitive to such carnality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Cowles noted that the English sparrow apparently mates only during the cool early morning hours when its body temperature drops below normal. The garter snake rarely breeds in summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Too-Warm Dinosaur | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...newshens. According to the report, there is a secret list which Capitol Hill's 135 female reporters are supposed to keep of U.S. Senators and Representatives "to stay on the other side of the desk from." Appended to prominent names on the list were such descriptive names as "Garter Snapper"; "Revolving Door Romeo" (he "gets into the same compartment of a revolving door [and] . . . pinches"); "Elevator Lothario"; "Gooser Gander"; and "Desk Athlete" ("He jumps. See him only with your gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wolf! Wolf! | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands was admitted by King George VI into Britain's most ancient (founded in 1349), most exclusive (41 living members) Order of the Garter, thus became the first foreign Queen and the third living woman (only others are Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary) entitled to wear on her left arm the society's diamond-studded garter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fun & Games | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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