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...small oriental gentleman was late for his appointment. More than that he was frightened. This maze of steam pipes and empty trunks hardly seemed a fit place to meet the Secretary of Harvard University--and now he couldn't find his way back to open...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Little's Office Shepherds Hundreds of Dignitaries, Diplomats, Foreign Educators Through University | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Christian Gentleman | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

...elongated gentleman in the photograph is not the man who delivered the celebrated Gettysburg Address. Mr. Lincoln did not leave the train on which he was riding until it reached its destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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