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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napoleon Bonaparte's pickled intestinal tract has been blown to glory, according to Britain's Surgeon Rear Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor. It went the way of all flesh when London's Royal College of Surgeons (and its Hunterian Collection) was bombed. Also gone: the tract of "one of the lady friends of Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Lincoln Gordon, instructor and tutor in the Harvard Government Department, will discuss the changes the war will bring to American life at a meeting of the Young Friends Sunday evening at 7:30 at the Friends Center, 5 Long fellow Park, Cambridge. Dr. Gordon is an expert in the field of government control of industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gordon Will Discuss Effect Of War on Life in America | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

Following Dr. Gordon's talk, Major L. S. Johnson of the First Civilian Area spoke to the class on defense against chemical attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Gordon Describes British Air Raid Organization to Harvard's Air Students | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

Experience in Britain is teaching that dispersion is better than protection, according to Dr. Gordon. "No matter how good a shelter may be," he said, "a direct hit is a direct hit, and the loss of life may be enormous." This principle is leading to increase use of the Anderson shelter, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Gordon Describes British Air Raid Organization to Harvard's Air Students | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

...Gordon told of the control centers, where telephone reports are received and all rescue facilities assigned. At one of these centers, he said, a telephone message came in one day from roof spoters, who reported that a land mine had been dropped, and kept reporting its course until they ended with "'It's coming this way . . . carry on fellow . . ." as the mine exploded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Gordon Describes British Air Raid Organization to Harvard's Air Students | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

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