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...plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

Clanking and wheezing, a spavined suburban train crept out of Rio de Janeiro. Late as usual, packed to the gills with the sweating homeward-bound, it broke down outside the city. For a while the passengers endured with true commuter calm. Then, like an oilfield fire, wild revolt swept through the train. The long-suffering customers tore out the seats by the roots, dragged down light fixtures and luggage racks, turned the train into a shambles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL,ARGENTINA,MEXICO: Revolt | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Washington's grey, cavernous Union Station, the crowd was bigger than usual. Two blocks south, waiters in the Capitol restaurants idled among empty tables. The 78th Congress, its mind on the holidays, was. calling it a day and hurriedly piling into homeward-bound Pullmans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventory | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...night was undisturbed, except for an alarm touched off by two U.S. landing craft, homeward-bound from the Ormoc beachhead. The next morning, too, was so calm that U.S. Navymen began to smell trouble. At 3 p.m., they sighted it-enemy planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Bold Stroke | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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