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Winston Churchill wore an unusually subdued look as he stepped up to the despatch box in the House of Commons last week. As Minister of Defense, the old warrior, whose name and appearance Britons instinctively associate with bulldog-ging it through, faced a painfully ironic task. He announced that Britain's $13.1 billion rearmament program, which the Labor government inaugurated, will have to be cut back sharply. "There will be a lag," said Churchill glumly. "We shall not succeed in spending the ?1,250 million [budgeted for] this year. Some of the program must necessarily roll forward into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Arms & the Man | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Says Gibbs : "They may be refugees from all kinds of things -from a nag ging wife, for instance." The tales they tell must be checked thoroughly. In some cases, dozens of news tips are put together, then matched up for points of common ground and disagreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill. And how we share our treasures with our neighbors! That's a tale in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Help Wanted | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...first soloist o'f the season with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in the an nual summer concerts in Lewisohn Sta dium. To his native gifts, which he would be the last to call genius, he had added the three Ps of success: 1) patronage, 2) plug ging. 3) practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Three Ps | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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