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A favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences...
*Marie Monroe's groom was Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, her father's private secretary and scion of a distinguished New York clan; Elizabeth Tyler's groom was William Waller, a tobacco planter and lawyer; Nellie Grant's Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family...
The message came from Sir Humphrey Gibbs, who for five months has lived in virtual isolation as the British Governor of rebel Rhodesia. It was directed to Harold Wilson, and its contents were secret, but it sent Wilson's personal envoy Oliver Wright flying into Salisbury for talks with...
British governors have always lived in isolated splendor. In Salisbury last week, Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs had plenty of isolation, but it was not altogether splendid. On orders of Prime Minister Ian Smith, all phone lines to Sir Humphrey's official residence were cut. Then, in rapid succession, his...
"What governor?" jeered Ian Smith at protests on Gibbs's behalf. Indeed, hardly had Smith seized independence for his white supremacist regime than he had taken it upon himself to fire Sir Humphrey, naming his own Deputy Premier as the Queen's new "official representative." Trouble was, Gibbs...