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Actually, all the ad says is that ex-servicemen have some peculiar reason why not to vote for MacArthur, else why the use of that good old word "veteran"? The ad doesn't say, for instance, "Sponsors: veteran Jonathan E. Robbin, veteran Gibb C. Taylor etc.," it merely lists the names of a number of public spirited Harvardians and others who think "vets" should not vote for MacArthur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queries on Veteran Groups, Loyalty Checks | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

Three veteran actors and directors joined HDC ranks last night to help resuscitate the Club's spring production, Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors." The play collapsed after an eight-day run in New York despite loud acclaim from critics Wolcott Gibb an Brooks Atkinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Play Makes Bow At 'Cliffe Today; Pros Assist HDC | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Islam's Way | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Last week S.A.S. began a new term and a new life, under a new principal. The job of restoring S.A.S to its prewar heights had fallen to Peking-born Thomas C. Gibb, 36, son and grandson of U.S. missionaries, who taught English there before Pearl Harbor, has since been the acting dean of Haverford College. Finding a student body is the least of Gibb's worries. His worst headaches: locating books, desks and beds in supply-shy China; drumming up a faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. A. S. | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Signed Lady Gibb last week: "Oh dear, what have I done now? ... I didn't expect my letter to be turned into a newspaper controversy. I wrote as a good Quaker. It won't do any good-all this hate. The ordinary people of Germany are having their punishment now. Their homes are blasted and ruined, their families are broken. I would not kill Hitler ... I should like to see him paint houses again and wallpaper a few homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lady and the Bear | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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