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...saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defeat Accepted | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise of the bombing...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Hughes' I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...rather confused over the dichotomy in your article, "Tulla's Coffee Grinder," between real and pseudo Bohemians. From the information supplied, we imagine pseudo Bohemians to be analogous to a fake quick kick. Could you enlighten us further on this matter? Harry Brunner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FAKE QUICK KICK | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

After a jaunt through Western Europe to Greece, Harl returned to Provincetown, where, through the years, he has gainfully occupied himself as a fisherman and fish-monger, and latterly, as a coffee grinder. One gathers that he was seriously ill for some time, but this didn't prevent him from driving, for variety's sake, a taxi in New York...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Tulla's Coffee Grinder | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

Since Tulla's Coffee Grinder opened a few days ago, a good many people have peered curiously at Harl and Tulla through the steamed-up window, and several have come in for a visit. Harl, mean-while, speculates quietly on whether or not his name has been expunged from the College's records...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Tulla's Coffee Grinder | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

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